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New Zealand Chess S'I'OP PRESS Offrcial journal of the New Zealand Chess Federation (Inc.), published in February, Wang Puchcrr in World Under-10 New Zealand Chess April, June, August, October, December. Wang Puclrcrr. tlrc 9-year oltl rr,rrr,,'r,rl VoI 25 Number 5 October 1999 Editorial correspondence, copy and advertis- under-12, undcr I 1 rrrrtl rrrrtlcr-l(r litlr,lr,,t,t, r. Contents ing inquiries should be sent to has nrade a trip lo Sllrirr Io grl:rv rrr rlrr, ('lr;rrrr;ri,rrrsltip New Zealand Chess World Under-10 irr t )r,,1,, ,1 The name Birkenhead Licensing Trust Open is new, but the tournament is well estab- c/- 103 Koromiko Road de Mar. Puchen wAs ir(( orrr;r:rrrir.rl lo 'r;, 1111 Gonville by his father, and wc will rt.lrlrl (,n lr trl, lished as the North Shore Open, and is one of New Zealand's major annual Wanganui and the results in thc Dccclrrlrr.r rs,,rrr ,L\,/ events. Although the entry fell away somewhat, the quality was there. Opinions Chess. expressed in articles, letter and As usual in Blenheim, the 1999 South Island Championship was another enjoyable other contributions are those of the authors. Wang Puchen scored 6/11, finishirrg t.) rr event, especially for long-time competitor Arie Nijman, who achieved a result he Letters on chess topics are welcome; limit a lleld o[ more than 90. Four of thc urrtk r neYer expected - he took the title. 150 words and marked "for publication." I 0s had FIDFE ratings, onc as high as 2349 EDITORIAL 13 Great news for Congress players and Howick-Pakuranga CC - GM Ian Rogers is Editor, Ted Frost. coflung. (iill 'l'irsrnrrrr t Overseas news editor, Peter Stuart. GeotT nlovcs al: rr)ss Ceollrey Cill, til' Wlrtn.rtlrrt.i. :r rt.ltulrrr t orrr t4 An Auckland team finds the going tough in China, and so does Ryan Trass in Viet- SUBSCRIPTIONS petitor in tountiuncnls irr Arrt Lllrnrl ,rrr,l nam. Subscription payments should be sent to othcr northern ccnlrcs irr rt.t t.nl vr,lrr s lr,r,, t6 A progress report by Gordon Hoskyn on correspondence chess has become a regular Treasurer, NZCF iust sent ouI a tnossltl](. lo s.ry tlr,rt lr, r, feature of NZ Chess, and includes games from the current championship. P O Box 216 ioining the nrigration ol tlrt.ss 1rl:r1t.rr,.r, r,, the Tasman. Ccoll'is ,,rl Shortland Street lrrovirr;: to tlrr Slr, ll l8..Kasparov beats The World. Auckland retincry in Ccclong, 70klrr wt st ol Nlr I bournc. antJ hy tlre tirrrt, llri:,r|,l)\.:r,, rr l,rrl l9..The 1999 knockout world championship was played without Kasparov, Karpov and ANNUAL SUB SCRIPTION RATES will have madc lho rrrove Anand, and top seeds started to get knocked out early. The result was a final be- New Zealand, $20.00. tween Khalifman and Akopian, with Khalifman becoming a somewhat unex- , South Pacific, $US12.00 airmail. pected official world champion. Peter Stuart reports in detail. Death of Garry Koshnitsk.y East Asia, N America, $US15.00 airmail One of Australia's greatcsl elrr.ss pt:rr 26 Peter Stuart's overseas news review includes a report that the FIDE bureaucracy Europe, $USl17.50 airmail, $12.50 econ- (iarry omy. ers, Koshnistky,9l, h:rs rlir.rl. were not prepared to grant Judit Polgar maternity leave so she could not defend Koshnitsky, Russian-born and a corrlt.rrr- Rest of world, $US20.00 airmail, $US15.00 her world women's title, which has been won by Jun. economy. porary and keen competitor on a levt.l The next issue: Patl Spiller reports on the Auckland team's trip to China, which included a num- Back issues with Cecil Purdy, won the Australiarr, available - send for details. ber of interesting games; we will also report on Wang Puchen's play in the World Under- Queensland, and South 10 Championship; and the end-of-year rating list will appear. ADVERTISING RATES Australia titles, and was also a correspon- dence IM. In addition, he and his wife Full page, $NZ$45.00 ( Evelyn held many adminsistrativc posts Half-page or tulI column, $N222.50 and organised Half column, NZ $12.00 many tournaments. Flt. played one of the most spectacular movr.s COPY DEADLINE ever, which deserves a place among llrt. chess classics. See page 12. . December issue, Saturday, November 27 Homepage: http://our- world. compuserve. com/tromepages/ nzchess Howick-Pakuranga host 1 999-2000 Congress Email to editor: [email protected] December 28, 1999 - January 11, 2000 Two overseas GMs and one overseas lM are coming ... the playing venue will be the Exhibi- tion Hall at the Waipuna lnternational Hotel & Conference Centre ... first-class accommoda-

NZ Chess NZ Chess Birkenhead Licensing Trust Open Birkenhead Licensins Trust Open. Zf Ocionei, tggg lly NM l', r, t \\tnitt l NameCl RtgRl 23456PtsTB 1 Kulashko A. AC 2364 D7 W15 W9 W14 W10 D3 5 21y, just Until a week before the toumament, saclillce with clear advantagc. As rt rr r rrrr 3 Mclaren L.J. NS 2229 wzi wro W17' D50 W5 D1 5 14i/, played on the weekend of2l3 October, this was cqual ending was reachrld and l:rtt.r ,r,rr.L.rl the 26h North Shore Open. While the sponsor- drawn. 5 Smith H.w. wT 2357 W13 Wti D14 D2 L3 W17 4 221/z ship application had been made to the Trust by '['he most interesting game of thc rorrrrrl rr;rs the club some months earher, it had just missed Krslcv-Wang where fortunes lluctrr:rlr'rl rrrrtrl the deadUne for an allocation meeting and the Antonio's attack finally broke througlt rrltr'r rr 8 Gill G. wH 1862 W30 110 W19 W17 L2 D9 31h 1Sv, trxstees' favourable response was notified too llnal dclcnsivc error. late to advertise the change. One result was an Tho hirll'point byc oplion was taken up by rrtr 10 Garbett Pe NS 2353 W24 W8 WtZ D50 L1 L2 3y2 18k increase in the prize fund from $1250 to more fewor than rrirrc players lbr the Saturday niglrt than $2000. It was therefore both ironic and round and thcsc irrclrrtlcd thc joint leaders. Ol' 12 lonns o.i. NS 1579 w34 wo 110 D11 L14 w20 3v2 17 disappointing that the total entry this year was the four playcrs on ?t/2/.\ ot'tly Krrlashko, who '13 Dale C.L. AC 1517 L5 W28 W25 D4 Lg W27 3h 16v2 so far down on last year's 48. The North Shore slew the Porry l)r-lrgorr, wlrs lrblr: lo t'trtclt rr;r 14 Perry R.L. AC 2023 W31 W22 D5 L1 W12 L4 3v, 15 club is hopeful that the sponsorship will be with Carbett and Mcl.urcrr ()n horrrtl 2 Wrrlsorr ongoing and looks forward to bigger and gaincd a space advanlagc uguirrsl Srrrillr lrrrt llrr better things in the year 2000. latter defended accuralcly cnorrglr lirr tlrt'rlr:rrv

Chris Dale (1-517) r Nevertheless there were seven players rated camc closc to htirtirl' lr.r,,tt who tinally porrrl lrr., W28 115 W30 3 16y2' over 2000, including three of the top four on the salvagcd hall'tt tllrrrl.s to 19 Cour,tney H.K. GA 1319 L4 W33 LB ( ( lrll W24 21/z 18lz latest active NZCF rating list. It was hard to go opponenl's tirnc shlrrlltgc. wltilt' ir'lllrr r 20 Cheng H. NS 1254 D15 17 D23 D21 112 beat l)on Eadc kr III()vc lo I poinls \\,rrrl evans" NS 1459 L2 W26 L] 1 D20 w32 LlB 21/2 18y, past these three - Alexei Kulashko, Robert 21 t. picked up a nicc scnlp alicr l':rrrl llr';rt lr rrorr rr rrr.orrjr*o, 1725 w32 114 wzi oso L4 L7 ZYz 18v, Smith and PauI Garbett - as favourites although iz s -- pawn but rt Bruce Watson,and Leonard Mclaren both have fbrgot to cxlriclrtc Iris lrislrop lrr'lrrrr was trappcd. a fine pedigree too in weekend tournaments. The lcaders aller round 4 wt'rt: llrus. Krl.r,,lrlo. t ll DBo L2g w31 13 Early upsets Garbett and Mclaren 372; Wtrlson rrrrrl irll i6 coi',.rp i.ri.r cA 110i L9 L2i w2s 2vp In this event the first two rounds are rapid Krstev, Perry, Dunn, Prashirrrl Mislry. Nlr lrrt I Howard, Srrnrsrr chess, 30 minutes per player. The idea ofthis is Johns, Wang, l)lrle :rrrrl Nedeljkov 2/2. Hodgkinson NS 108e L1B D23 Lls L2! W3j 1.1v: both to allow for six rounds instead ofthe usual 2e BP 913. ? Jones 1156 L32 W33 W34 119 2 121/z five and to minimize the amount of time de- 30 G.M. NS L8 L24 11211'-point Morrison 1290 W32 D27 125 Lvo 1Yz 1?v: voted to obvious mismatches. Some of the pair- bye popular ai M.K. AC 114 116 W30 D50 lZt L24 1y2 13_y2 ings in those early rounds apparently were not With everyone back on deck on Sunday rnorrr 32 Cloete D.l. NS 1055 L22 131 ing the top clash was Garbett-Kulashko which 33 Jackson M.D. NS 972 116 119 D26 130 D29 128 1 15 mismatches and three of the top seven failed to :1,2 win their first two games. scemed 1o inexorably descend into a bad bishop versus knight ending (rvith The most stunning upset came in round one all thc rooks still on as well) which Carbett was unable to deltndl il when top seed Kulashko drew with 9-year old With one round to go the leaders were: Ku- drifted into a slightly inferior position and then [here was a de[ence it was certainly not ohvi Wang Puchen; this could perhaps better be lashko & Mclaren 472; Watson 4; Garbett, Bruce combined to win material and soon the ous. On board 2 Smith played fhc opt'rrirrg described as Puchen drawing with Alexei as the Krstev, Perry & Mistry 3%; Smith, Dunn, GiIl, fuIl point. Perry looked a cinch to reach 4Yzbttt against Mclaren poorly, lost a pawn irrrtl tlrcrr youngster had a huge position when the draw Hair, Eade & Wang 3. a horrendous blunder in an easily won position had b jcttison an exchange. This lcll Kulrrslrko was agreed. Alexei and Leonard effectively opted for a cost his queen and this allowed Krstev to reach and Mcl-aren on4Vzl5. Gill played crrrcli'ssly trr Garbett and Mcl-aren were the only players half-point bye in the last round with their one 4Vz instead. Mistry blundered early in the mid- lose a pawn against Watson who wcnl orr lo rvirr Ieft with 100% scores after their third round move draw and the question became whether dle game so Krstev had fourth prize to himself. without l-rouble. Krstev, Perry irrrrl Nl rslry victories against Daniel Johns and Don Eade Watson could catch the leaders by defeating Smith and Alan Dunn won to reach 4 points, a moved to 372 although Pery noctlctl sonr( ntis- respectively. Smith twice tried to sacrifice a Garbett for whom only a win would bring any total also gained by Wang who played a steady takes from Johns in a drawn ending piece against Roger Perry who twice refused; financial reward. As always, playing for a win game to beat Simisa Nedeljkov. probably he should have accepted the second with the black pieces proved difficult and Paul

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Grade prizes Krstev has supplied notcs lo lrrs ),,rrrr, rlittr AK:Closing in both bishops and paralysing 24...4fs 2s.br2 Dunn won the first under-2000 prize, the sec- Wang Puchen, which attraclctl :rltt rrtrorr rr,rl jtrst the king's wing. AK:The first mistake in a good game for ond being shared by Paul Beach, Geoffrey Gill, because of Puchen's age, bul lrr.trru,,r rt wzts 16..f5 White. 25.Kh1 ! is the move. Philip Hair and Prashant Mistry. In the under- sharply contested, ful1 of litc an(l rrl, rr ,l An-- 1700 grade Wang Puchen took the first prize tonio's notes are indicatedby his rrrlr.rl,, lril ] AK: 16.. f6 is stronger, but the opening is still 25...4g7? bad for Black. while Chris Dale, Michael Howard and Daniel After this Black is lost but 25...Qb6! would Krstev Johns shared the second prize. Helen Courtney - Wang 17.Hh3 Hg8 18.94! have kept him well in the game. Canrbit finished first in the under-1400 grade and [D45] Queen's AK: 25...Bb6! is right, not allowing Rgl. was R3 AK: The right move, to open the position tbllowed by Alshan Bajwa, Hany Cheng, can queen- Hc2+ Notes by Pctct'Stuurt & Antonio Krstt.t, 1,lh-) before Black counter attack on the 26.Qf6 27.4e2 Qb6 Thomas Gothorp and Gary Judkins. Thus more q.AR side. AK: Too late. than halfthe players received prizesl l.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.4c3 A16 cO 5.e-.r rtxc,l 6.Qxc4 Qtl6 7.0-0 0-0 8.e4 Qc7? 28.Wg4 Qxd4+ 29.6f1 1-0. 8 ..Qe7 Wang,P-Kulashko,A Kulashko,A-Perry,RL Sicilian 9.Qgs h6 r0.Qh4 gs? [B21] Sicilian R1 [B72] 10...4bd7 I l.e5 95 t2.Axg5 hxg5 t3.Qxg5 Rt 1.e4 c5 2.d,4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Axc3 Ac6 5.Qe3 Axe5 l4.dxe5 Sxdl l5.Haxc11 Qxe5 16.H1'ct 1.e4 c5 2.AR d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Afe s.Acl e6 6.Qc4 Qh4 7.Age2 6ge7 8.0-0 0-0 9.a3 Qa5 Qxc3 l7.bxc3 697 and White still has wor.l< 1o 96 6.Qe3 Qgl 7.Qe2 Ac6 8.h4 hs 9.Ud2 0-0 10.b4 Qb6 ll.Qf4 l2.Qd6 Qc7 13.8c1 b5 do in the ending. 10.0-0-0 l:g4 ll.Qxgf Qxg4 l2.R Qe6 13.94 14.Qb3 Qb7 15.R Qxd6^6 16.Uxd6 Ac8 t7.Wd2 I l.6xg5! AeS l4.Axe6 fxe6 15.gxh5 Hxf3 16.h6 Qf6 ab6 18.Efd1 Hc8 19.Ud6 Ug5 20.f4 Bf6 21.e5 17.Hdg1 6h718.h5 Ue8 19.hxg6+ Axg620.We2 Wg622.Qc2 f5 23.exf6 Wxf624.de4He7 25.Ac5 AK: A sacrificc on thc basis thrrl Wltrlr. lrirs Hxe3 2l.Hxe3 Uc6 22.Uh3 Uc4 23.Hxg6 6xg6 Sxd6 26.Hxd6 Hc7 27.Q.e4 Ac4 28.Hxdi Hxdi- control ol'the ccntre and both bislrops lrrrtl llrc 24.h7 Eh8 2s.Ehs+ 697 26.Hg1+ 6f8 27.Ug6 29.Axd7 W7 30.Ac5 %-%. queen ls actlvc e5 28.4d5 1-0. l1...hxg5 l2.Qxg5 abdT 18...9f7 Smith, RW - Perry R L 12...c5 l3.ER dbdT 14.\4g3! r;rtr5 ( I I ,i,trti'l Garbett, PA - Kulashko, A [A08] King's Indian Attack 18...Qd8! 19.Qxd8 (19.gxf5 Qxg5 20.Qxe6 15.8h4+ 698 1 6.Qh(r) I .5.\rlh.l irtl I (r rlxc5 Gambit R3 tir Qxf4+ 21.Qxg8 Uxg8+ 22.bh1 Axell?-+) [A57]Benko Qxe5 l7.Qxf6 Uxf6 l8.Uxh-5 irr(l l)islrr)1, l)irir 19...Hxg4+ 20.6h1 Uxd8 21.Qxe6 AdfS and R5 l.e4 c5 2.d3 Ac6 3.g3 d5 4.Ad2 At6 5.Qg2 96 does not oompensate fbr Whitc's c\lrir p:rrr rrs, Black should be able to consolidate his material t.d4 Af6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.AR b4 5.b3 6.AgR Qg7 7.0-0 0-0 8.He1 dxe4 9.dxe4 96 e5 t3.t4t? advantage. 6.Qb2 Qgl 7.e4 d6 8.Qd3 0-0 9.0-0 e5 10.dxe6 10.c3 Uc7 11.9e2 Qg4 12.h3 13.a4 Qe6 h6 Qxe6 11.a4 Ac6 l2.Abd2 Qg4 13.h3 QxR t4.Ac4 h6 1s.Qd2 HfdS Prcferring attack to thc bcttcr crrtlirrg ;rltcr 19.8h6 Hg6 20.Ehs ab6? 16.Ead1 Hd7 r7.Qcl 14.Axf3 Ad7 l5.Wc2 Qxb2 16.Uxb2 Ades Had8 18.Hxd7 HxdT t9.ah2 bh7 20.Ag4 13.e5 6xc5 l4.dxe5 Uxcl I l-5 i(rrxtl I itlxc5 Axg4 20...&g7t? 17.6e1 He8 18.Hd1 Ef6 lg.bht ad4 20.4c2 2l.hxg4 Hd8 22.95 h5 23.4d Ae7 24.Qf3 Wc6 t6.Hf'e1 Qxc3 17.bxc3 697 21.gxf5! Ae6 2t.Ae3 af4 22.4d5 Axd5 23.cxd5 Uf4 2s.afs Qf8 AK: lf 13.e5, White rcgains thc piccc, but the 24.Qbs Ye7 25.Wd2 26.Hfe1 A96 27.Vxf4 AK: Before the Black knight comes on d5. 95 25...gxf5!? 26.exf5 Q.c4 27.Wxc4 UxB 28.f6 attack weakens. This way, tl-re Black picccs gxf4 28.f3 h5 29.Ye2 h4 30.691 a5 31.6f2 He5 Now ...Qf5 is not possible because of Bd3. remain limitcd. 32.Hc2HgS 33.Qd7 6e5 34.Qbs 6f8 35.Qf1 6e7 2l...Axc4 26.Axei QxeT 27.Qxh5 Uxa4 l3...Uc8l4.Hl3 36.Qbs HagS 37.Qfl 0d7 38.Hdd2 6c7 39.6e1 r 4.Qh6! 21...Hg7 22.Qb3 Hxf5 23.&hl Ad5 24.Q.c2 and 6b6 40.Qc4 Eg3 41.Hf2 He8 42.6fl Hgs 27...gxh5128.uxh5+ bg7 29.w6+ 698 30.96 t4...4h7 White's attack is looking menacing again. 43-flfe2 dg6 aa.Qd3 Ege5 45.6f2 Af8 46.6f1 Qf6 31.8h7+ 6f8 and White is yet to demon- Ah7 47.bt2 af6 4s.Hc1 ahs 49.Hee1 Ag3 strate sufficient t4...bg7'l ls.Hg3! Hh8 16.e5. 22.fxg6 Uxg6 23.Ug4 compensation for the piece. s0.Qbs EEeT 51.Qd3 Sc7 s2.Qb1 &d8 53.Hcd1 t 5.Hg3? 28.Qg4 Uc4 29.W8 bg7 30.Qxe6 Uxe6 31.692 AK:White wants Bf6+ and take the queen, but 6e8 54.Qd3 6fB 55.Hcl Ah5 56.Qa6 af6 s7.Qc8 c4 32.Hd1 l5.Qh6 d,h8 l6.QxfB UxfS retains sorrrc :ul-, Black is preparing 23...Ne3!, so if 24.Bf6 Hxdl 33.Uxdl Uc6 34.Ud5 Uxd5 Qxf6 Black's next prevents the bishop's return to the vantage for Whitc but aftcr the tcxl lllucl< has 25.exf6Ng4 26.f7 Bd7 and Black is better. 35.exd5 Od6 36.6R 6fB 37.Qe3 6e7 38.6e4 fl-a6 diagonal yet if the bishop remained on cnough defensivc resources. Qb8 39.fl b5 40.Qc5+ bu n.gn a6 42.ef2 23...4e3? that diagonal it would not be able to hinder the Qd6 a3.Qg3 Qe7 44.Qxe5 Qxgs 4s.f4 Qd8 AK: 15.Bh6, White takcs lf lhc rooli. brrt the 23...698. f7-f5 break. White was on the horns of a 46.Qd4 Qe7 47.Qb6 Qd6 48.Qd4 Qe7 49.Qb6 attack is less strong. So Whitc-jtrsl irnlrrovcs the dilemma. Qd6 s0.Od4 Qe7 %-%. position ofhis pieces. 24.uh3 57...Ha7 58.Eed1 6e7 59.Hc4 6d8 60.Qg4 6eS 15...6ht1 16.eS 24.Hxh7+t &xh7 (24...Uxh7? 25.Qt6+) 25.Uh3+ addition to Peter Stuart's 6l.Hc2 Ac7 62.Hc4 Aa8 63.93 [In report, Antonio bg7 26.Wxe3 wins comfortably.

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A desperate gasp for air but it probably serves only to shorten the agony. 1999 South Island Championship 63...hxg3+ 64.&92 Ah6 65.Edcl Axc4 66.Hxc4 he7 67.Hc2 6f6 68.h4 Ee8 69.Ecl He5 and Black won, 0-1 The new St John Ambulance headquarters in rounds. Blenheim lived up to Peter Voss's expectations Donaldson's upward swing was even more Smith, RW - Mclaren, LJ and proved to be an excellent venue for the dramatic. He had only 1.5 points ftom the first [A01] Nimzo-Larsen 1999 South Island Championships. The venue four rounds, and won four in a row in the R5 could have catered for a much bigger tourna- second half. ment, but although the entry in the champi- 1.b3 e5 2.Qb2 d6 3.e3 Af6 4.c4 96 5.d3 Qg7 onship was only 16 players - with five from the Last-minute dash 6.4fi 0-0 i.Abd2 He8 8.8c2 abd7 9.Qe2 b6 10.0-0 Qb7 1l.Ag5? d5 12.cxd5 Axd5 North Island - the toumament was enjoyed by The toumament ran smoothly under the direc- 13.Age4? all participants. tion of Chris Bell. However, Chris repofts that 21.0\e7+l As the only player rated above 2000, and with it was the scene of the most noisy and dramatic According to plan but perhaps 13.AgR was a 300-point gap back to the next seeded player, incident he can recall in any tournament he has better. 2lffil? is also strong: 21...grt5 22.trrre'/+ WxeT Mark Sinclair was a toumament favourite who directed. Mark Sinclair and Michael Nyberg 23.fue7 WA 24.exff ard flre badly placed black pieces 3...f514.4C3? a lived up to expectations. He conceded only two were staying some distance from the venue and otrerhin ableak firture. 14.493 f4!? 75.exf4 exf416.Age4Ab4 t7.Wb1 draws and was not severely tested in winning Mark was cycling back and for1h. Mark was 21...Hxe7 (17.Wc4+ Qd5) 17...Qxb2 18.Uxb2 Ae5 is also the event, although analysis suggested that Ross drawn to play Hamish Gold in round 5 and better for Black but at least it doesn't lose a 21...6h8 222d5 M gvex better &awing chances but Jackson might have done better than a draw. didn't turn up. There was no sign of him after pawn. half a point was no good for Paul so he goes in for tlrc Some of the highly-seeded players did not fare 1 5 minute. .. 30. ..45... and approaching the 60- 14..4b4 ls.Ubt ac5 t6.Hd1 Abxd3 t7.aB whic[ mforturately for hirr tr-u:r out so well, with second seed Graham Haase having minute deadline. QxR 18.QxI3 e4l9.Qp2 9f6! 20.Qxd3 Axd3 ;Hl*-r to settle for 5s place on 5, behind Ross Jackson, With about 3 minutes left before defaulting 22.4f5 Wxd2 23.Axe7+ 6f8 24.Exd2 f6 25.ad5 Arie Nijman and Bruce Donaldson on 5.-5. As the game, Mark appeared in the car park, run- Forcing White to give up the exchange, else 26.4b6 Sinclair and Jackson were not South Islanders, ning flat out - and tripped and fell flat on his lose a piece. fxg' Qbs 27.Efdl Aal zt,Axa1.+ hn 29.4h6 Ee8 30.b3 Qc6 3t.Ac4 Ee7 32.8d8 Qc3 the result was the Nijman and Donaldson face. He picked himself up, raced inside, ran to 21.Hxd3 exd3 22.Hxd3 EadS 23.9b5 c6 24.He2 33.81d3 Qf6 34.691 bg7 35.&f2 94 36.a4 gxf3 shared the South Island title. his board and made a move in time to keep the We7 25.4a4 Qxb2 26.Axb2 Wb4 27.Wcq+ Wxc4 37.gxl3 Hf7 38.Hc8 Ee7 39.Hdd8 Qc3 40.6e3 It was particulady pleasing and surprising to game alive. 28.Axc4 b5 29.Aa5 He6 30.93 Hd2 31.b4 Hed6 Qh4 41.&e2 bh6 42.4e3 Qa5 43.Ed6 Qd7 Arie Nijman, who believed that he had com- Then he was able to take time out to clean up 32.bg2 Hb2 33.4b3 bfl 34.h4 Hd3 35.6A Hc3 44.4d5 Ef7 45.Hh8 Qc6 46.b4 Qxd5 47.bxa5 peted in practically all South Island Champi- his bloodied hands and get his breath back. It 36.Hd1 Hxa2 37.4c5 Hcc2 38.6f4 Hxl2+ Qc6 48.Hxc6 bxc6 49.Ha8 695 50.Hxa6 6h4 onships over the last 40 years. He has been didn't help Hamish. Mark's rapid-play skills 39.6e5 Had2 40.Hxd2 Hxd2 41.e4 fxe4 51.Hxc6 Ha7 52.a6 6h3 53.6d3 bxh2 54.&c4 runner-up several times, and did not think he came to his aid and Hamish was mated on move 42.bxe4Bb2 43.4d3 Hb3 44.4e5+ 6e6 45.Axc6 693 55.6b5 56.6b6 57.a7 95 He7 HxaT would ever win the title. 43. 0d6 0-1. 58.6xa7 6xf3 59.Hh6 1-0. The last round decided the minor placings. With Bruce Donaldson sharing second prize, Wahon-Garbett Bruce Gloistein, noted for always going for the Bruce Gloistein was able to take the grade prize Mind Sports pay players 1650 rating, and four players lD90lGiinfeld opponent's king, found his tactics offin the for below R6 The 1st was held in early stages and after 6 rounds was on 4.5, only shared the second prize - Don Stracy, Michael at the end of August, with 93 competi- halfa point behind Sinclair. However, losses to Nyberg, Hamish Gold and Peter Voss. tM N6 2.d 96 3.0\3 d5 4.m fo7 5.cxd5 fod5 tors in the masters chess event - 18 of them Sinclair and Jackson in the last two rounds saw 6.EHl ab6 7.ff4 H &e3 Qe6 9.8c2 Q6 t0.Ud2 c5 grandmasters. First equal were GMs Alexander him drop back through the field. Numbers problem ll.Hdl cxd4 lz.txM 13"fu2 EcB r4^q5 HeB fu4 Barburin (IRL), Pasakhis (ISR) 15.(H)a6 Lev and Jon After losing to Donaldson in the first round, Needless to say, there was discussion about Speelman (ENG) on 719, witll NZ-bom GM Jackson was steady and did not lose again, but the size of the fields (there were only 11 in the 15...ke2 l6.Wxe2 fu6 was preferable; flre Qg+ te- Murray Chandler on 4= only half a point be- had ihree draws in the middle stages. South Island Rapid) and how to build up the comes a liability afta the text hind. Nijman and Donaldson both finished strongly. number of entries in future events. Changes in 16.'3M717.e4fu418.frc4 Uko4 19.Ads E6 m.6h1 NZ Chess had lost track of Scott Wastney, but After starting with three wins, Nijman lost to school holidays, with the universities acting Ed6 his name appears in this event, scoring 4.5. Sinclair, drew with Jackson and lost to Haase, independently, and changes in working hours, 20...Wxd421.WxM Sd4 22.Hxd4 was not an athactive so on 3.5 after 6 rounds was somewhat off the incomes and lifestyles were among the factors alternative forBlack. pace. Wins against Dan Dfolejs and Michael identified as contributing to the downward Nyberg pulled him back up in the last two trend.

NZ Chess NZ Chess 11 r0 Nijman,A - Sinclair,M Souah Island Championship. I999 [C4l] Philidor's Defence , ,,:,,,,:'::, P[6y*|. R4 1 : M Sinclair 1.e4 e5 2.Af3 d6 3.d4 Af6 4.Qc4 Qe7 5.dxe5 L H,Jackson 2 AxM 6.Ud5 Qe6 7.Sxb7 6c5 8.Hxa8 Qxc4 9.b4 A Nijman 1 W15 W10 Wl 2=4 3 693 W9 L1 D2 L5 1 W8 5.5 Aca6 l0.Q.d2 dxe5 l1.Ue4 Qd5 12.Ue3 e4 4 ,B Donaldson B.Ad4 dxh4l4.Qxb4 Qxb4+ 15.c3 Qc5 16.0--0 5 ,G G,,Flaase,,,,, 1848 D6 W12 L1 W7 W11 W3 D5 L4 s 5 o-017.Ad2 f5 18.f4 Ac6 79.62b3? :,6,8,Gloislein:',:,: 1607 D5 W13 W4 L9 W14 W10 L1 ,L2 4.5 6 :i,, :stracli ,,,,:D:M , 6:,,':':::,M NyUerg

9, ,, 11 Oold 1'0" P Voss 11 D Dolejs 1729 L1 0 W1 5 D7 W4 L5 W13 L3 L1 3.5 1 1= 12 ELaWS,,,1 Ir, 13 BWilllamb : 14...Hxd4 15.Qxd4 Qxe2 16.9xe2 Axd{ 17,We4 14 l{ fodd 1703 W16 L9 L2 W12 L6 L8 D15 ll 2..5 14= 96 l8.Hadl c5 l9.Efel h6 20.4f3 axB+ 15 H',Goeckel" a 21.Uxf3 bg1 22.93 f6 23.8d5 Hd8 Black lost on 16 R Keel time. 1-0 With the fina1 round to play, Graham Haase was alone in second place but was driven back Rapid Championship 24.Hdt Hd8 25.93 Ab9 26.4e3 UtS ZZ.Hxag 19...Qxb3 0-1 on the defensive by Donaldson's positive play . In the Rapid championship there was a similar Uxds 28.692 Ed6 29.h4 Qe7 30.4e3 QfB Donaldson placed his pieces well and made best pattem to the main event - Mark went 31.Ue2 c6 32.Wg4 6h7 33.Uc8 34.h5 gxh5t Sinclair 96 use ofthe half-open g-file to leap-frog rnto 2: Fritz 5 suggests 34...Qg7 35.4a5: Jackson,R - Sinclair,M through with a picket fence, to be assured of at place. 35.bg2= [,4.60] Modern Benoni least a share offirst after 5 ofthe six rounds. Arie Nijman joined Donaldson when Michael Fritz suggests 35. Aa5 Ad7 36. Axc6 6h84. R6 Michael Nyberg, seeded in midfield, lost to Nyberg played briskly but could not find a 35...4d7 36.afs Ud3t 37.Uxc6 Qg7 38.Edst Af6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Ac3 exd5 5.Axd5 Sinclair in round one, but won his way back to td( winning [ine. After the major pieces were ex- 38...Uxd5 39.exd5 QfS 40.6R 696 41.6e4 695 6xd5 6.Hxd5 Qp1 1.dR 6c6 8.4e5 0-0 9.6xc6 be the only player within striking distance with changed Nijman had two Bs for a R and P, plus 42.R: bxc6 l0.Ed2 Qfo tt.e3 d5 l2.Qe2 EbS 13.0-0 a round to go. A draw with John van Ginkel united Ps on the middle files which proved too Fritz suggests 42.f4+ exf4 43.gxf4+ hg6 Qe6 14.Uc2 Ua5 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.Qd2 Ub6 gave Nyberg second place on 4.516. strong. 44.4h4+ hf6+. lT.Habl HfcS 18"b3 96 19.QR Ua6 20.e4 c4 This result also gave van Ginkel the South 42...4f6+ 43.6xe5 Aa7+ %-y, 2l.bxc4 Hxbl 22.Exb1 dxc4 23.e5 Qxe5 Island Rapid title. He shared third place on 4 Nyberg,M - Nijman,A 24.Qb7 Qf5 25.Qxa6 Qxc2 26.Hcl Hc6 27.Qb5 / Italian with John Gillespie, but all the other place- [C55] Guioco Piano Gold,H - Gloisten,B Hc5 28.Hxc2 Hxb5 29.Hxc4 697 30.f4 Qd6 R8 getters were from the North Island. Nick Todd [B13] Giuoco Piano / Italian 31.Hc2 f5 32.bn bII 33.Qe3 a5 34.be2 Hb4 won a grade prize. R4 I 35.93 6e6 36.Qd2 Ea4 37.Qc3 Hc4 38.&d3 Ha4 1.e4 e5 2.AR Ac6 3.Qc4 Af6 4.d4 exd4 5.0-0 rl Qc5 6.e5 d5 7.exf6 dxc4 8.Ee1+ Qe6 9.fxg7 l.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Qd3 5.Qf4 39.Hb2 Ea3 40.6c4 Qe7 4l.Qd2 Qd6 42.6b5 Selected games 96 * EgS 10.695 Uds U.aca WfS t2.e4 S96 13.6ce4 Qg7 6.413 Ac6 7.c3 af6 s.Abdz 0-0 9.Ue2 Ah5 Yr-Y, Donaldson met Sinclair early and was not Qb6 14.Axf7 Qxfl 15.4f6+ 6d8 16.Axg8 QxgS 10.Qg3 He8 11.4e5 6xe5 12.dxe5 e6 13.Af3 f6 deterred by nearly 400 points' difference in their gave a a and P against l7.We2 bdT ls.Uf3 Qc5 19.8f5+ Uxf5 20.gxf5 14.Qh4 Af4 15.8fl a5 16.exf6 Qxf6 17.Qg3 e5 Dan Dolejs up R for B rating. pay and Dan was Ab4 2l.He2 He8 22.Exe8 6xe8 23.Qf4 6xc2 18.Qb5 e4 19.Qxe8 exf3 20.Qxf4 UxeS+ 21.Qe3 Arie Nijman, but it did not off 24.Hdl Qd6 25.Qg5 Qe5 26.Hd2 d3 27.b3 bs Donaldson,B - Sinclair,M d4 22.cxd4 Ue4 23.gxB UxR24.Uc4+ &h8 soon on the defensive. Dolejs,D 28.bxc4 bxc4 29.Hd1 QxgT 30.Hb1 c3 31.f6 [C88] I Spanish 2s.Hg1 Qfs 26.Ue2 Uc6 27.Hc1 Ud7 28.Ud2 Ee8 Nijman,A - Scandinavian QfB 32.8b8+ &f7 33.8d8 Qd6 34.Hd7+ &e6 R2 29.ds ud6 30.Hg3 h6 31.6f1 6h7 32.Qcs Ua6+ [B01] Centre Counter / 35.Hg7 Qfl 36.f4 d237.f5+ 6xf5 38.Qxd2 cxd2 1.e4 e5 2.4f3 Ac6 3.Qb5 a6 4.Qa4 6f6 5.0-0 33.691 Ee2 34.8d1 R7 Qxb2 35.He3 Hxe3 36.Qxe3 39.Hxf7 dlW+ 40.692 Ue2+ 41.691 Qc5+ Qe7 6.8e1 b5 7.Qb3 0-0 8.a4 Hb8 9.c3 d5 Qes 37.9b3 1-0 d5 2.exd5 af6 3.c4 e6 4.dxe6 Qxe6 5.AfJ 1.e4 42.bht ua# 0-1 10.d3 Ud6 11.axb5 axb5 12.Qg5 Qe6 13.abd2 Qb4 6.Qe2 dc6 7.0-0 0--0 8.d4 Qg4 9.Qe3 Ee8 Ea8 14.Ue2 dxe4 15.dxe4 Qxb3 16.0xb3 Se6 A tactical error cost Arie Nijman a piece 10.a3 Qd6 11.4c3 Ed7 l2.Ud2 de4 l3.Axe4 17.Uc2 Hfds 18.Afd2 h6 19.Qxf6 Uxf6 20.4f1 against Sinclair. Hxe4 14.495 Ug6 21.4e3 Qg5 22.Hxa8 HxaS 23.4d5 Ud6

NZ Chess NZ Chess t2 DonaldsonrB - HaaserGG 10.Qd3 Qe6 11.8h5 96 12.Uh6 0e5 t3.Axe5 [B12] Advance Variation, 3.e5 dxe5 14.Qxg6 fxg6 15.e4 UdS tO.Ue3 Qxcl GM Ian Rogers to play in R8 l7.Uxfi Qxd3 18.f3 HadS 19.Qe3 Qh4+ 20.Of2 Howick Congress Full year for Ashburton Qxf2+ 21.hxf2Qxe422.Hhel Qc6 23.Hxe5 Ed2+ The Ashburton Club enjoyed a full pro- 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Qf5 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Qd7 6.hs Paul Spilier advises that Australian GM Ian Ua5+ 7.c3 Aa6 8.f4 e6 9.AIz Ae7 24.He2 HfdS 25.6e3 E8d3+ 26.6f2 Hxe2+ 0-1 gramme of events to end their season in mid- lq.Abd2 O-.o-0 Rogers has advised that he will play in the l07s 11.b4 Eb6 l2.Ab3 Ac7 13.a4 a6 14.Qe3 f5 Sinclair,l\{ - Williams,B October. On Sunday, October 17, the Mid- New Zealand Chess Congress, being staged by 15.Qh3 fxg4 16.Qxg4 6f5 17.Qxf5 exf5 18.6h4 [C53] Giuoco Piano / Italian Canterbury Open Rapid Championships, spon- Howick-Pakuranga CC. Eg8 19.496 Qe8 20.Hg1 Qf't zt.1#cZ Qe6 22.0-0- R6 sored by Brian Davidson Financial Services, Ian Rogers will join GM Drazen Sermek, of 0 He8 23.Hg3 Q,e1 24.Ydgl Aa8 25.Axe7+ HxeT 1.e4 e5 z.At3 Ac6 3.Qc4 ocs were played, and on the Monday was the break- 4.c3 d6 5.d4 Slovenia, and IM Herman van Riemsdijk, of exd4 6.cxd4 up with presentation of prizes, supper and the Qb4+ 7.Ac3 af6 8.0-0 Qxca Brazil in the field, so ambitious competitors can final ofthe 30-30 tournament. 9.bxc3 0-0 10.He1 d5 11.exd5 6xd5 be assured that IM norms will be available from D Wood (CA) was undefeated to win the 12.Qa3 6xc3 13.Uc2 Axd4 14.Wxc3 OxB+ the championship. These entries also help en- 6-round open tournament, with 4 players 2=. 15"HxR Qe6 16.Qxe6 fxe6 17.Uxl8+ WxfS sure that there will be a Swiss field of at least I 8 They were A Nijman (CA), A Mulligan (AS), J l8.Qxf8 6xf8 19.Hxe6 c5 20.f4 c4 21.Hb1 players. MacDonald (AS) and B Donaldson (CA). Don- bn zz.Het t-o lan Rogers, accompanied by his wife Cathy, a aldson took the upset prize and was 1= with came to New Zealand for the 1996-97 Koshnitsky classic a MacDonald in the B grade. Congress, hosted by North Shore CC. This was Startling, totally unexpected match-winning On the Monday evening the eliminating the first Congress under the revised rules en- moves should be even more rare rrr correspon- games in the 30-30 were played, and before the couraging overseas masters to compete. dence chess than over the board. But here's a final game between K Pow and N Richardson Ian Rogers won that toumament with 9.5/1 1, classic. the president, Roy Keeling, presented the vari- conceding three draws. Alexei Kulashko was ous trophies and complimented the players on mnner-up on 8.5, with Russell Dive and Paul Koshnitsky,G - Wolfers,A their success. The trophy winners were: A grade lAs2l Garbett on 8. Kulashko and Garbett gained IM 26.AcSUc7 27.Axe6 Hxe6 28.Uxf5 Ud7 29.Hg6 champion, K Pow and A Mulligan 1-; A grade Australian CC Champ, 1948 norms in that tournament. Exg6 30.Bxd7+ 6xd7 31.Hxg6 be7 32.f5 &fl mnner-up, N Richardson; B grade champion, J l.c4 Af6 2.d4 e5 3.dxe5 Ag4 4.e4 AxeS The preliminary closing date for entries for the 33.Qf4 He8 34.f6 gxf6 35.Hxf6+ &e7 36.Exh6 5,f4 A96 MacDonald; opening toumament, S Bennett; 6.aB Qb4+ 7.AB We7 Championship and Major Open is November Hf8 37.Qg5+ 6e8 38.Hf6 6c7 39.8d6 Efl+ 8.Qd3 Qxca+ 9.bxc3 d6 30-30, K Pow; outside club trophy, R Keeling; 10.0-0 0.-0 ad7 12.afs 30. Entry forms have been circulated through 40.6c2 Hgl 4l.Qf6Hg2+ 42.0b3 1-0 tt.adl ud8 13.Qe3 0c5 most improved player, K Cockbum; lightning 14.Qc2 Ee8 15.Qd4 6e6 16.Qa4 Qd7 l7.Qxd7 clubs, or are available from Paul Spiller, 59 champion, R Scarf; junior Iightning champion, UxdT 18.h4 f6 19.Hg4 Had8 20.h5 Axd4 Uxbridge Road, Howick, Auckland (tel 09 535 Rapid games Andrea Richardson. 2l.cxd4 AfX Z2.eS dxe5 23.dxe5 6h8 24.exf6 4962). manner The in which Mark Sinclair scored a gxf6 25.Ead1 Efl 26.Hxd8 HxdS 27.8e1 Hd7 picket fence in the South Island Rapid is illus- 28.9h4 c5 29.He3 b6 30.6h2 Ae6 3t.Ah6 Wg7 trated in the next three games. 32.Exe6 Wxh6 33.Hxf6 Sg7 34.h6 Se7 Nyberg,M - Sinclair,M International Olympic Committee recognises FIDE to [C54] Giuoco Piano i Italian NZCF has received a copy of the certiflcate issued by the Intemational Olyrnpic Committee RI FIDE after its recognition of the World Chess Federation. NZCF is taking steps to obtain from the - Zealand bodies what effect, if any, this will have for chess in NZ. l.e4 e5 2.4f3 6c6 3.Qc4 Qc5 4.c3 af6 S.d4 exd4 t relevant New observes: "This is certainly a step in the right direction, but don't hold your 6.cxd4 Qb4+ 7.48 Axe4 8.0-0 Qxc3 9.d5 Qf6 The NZCF bulletin l0.Hel Ae1 11.Exe4 d6 12.Qg5 Qxg5 13.Axg5 breath!" h6 l4.We2 hxg5 15.He1 Qe6 16.dxe6 f5 17.He3 94 18.h3 d5 19.Hdr Ed6 20.Hdd3 Hh6 21.He5 c6 22.Eet 0-0-0 23.Qb3 HdhS 24.Uc3 6b8 25.Hee3 gxh3 26.Hxh3 Hxh3 27.Exh3 Exh3 AII- Canterbury Championship, Christchurch, December I I - I 2. 28.gxh3 Uxe6 29.Wxg7 0-1 Auckland, Dec 28 - Sat, Jan 9. Gold,II - Sinclair,M NZ Championship & Major Open, Howick-Pakuranga CC, NZ Rapid Championship, Howick-Pakuranga CC,Auckland, Sun-Mon, Jan 10-l l, 2000. [.460] Modern Benoni R5 South Island Championship, September, 2000, Otago CC. 35.Ue1!! lf 35...698 36.He6 and Black's Q has NZ Championship & Major Open, 2000-2001, Waitemata CC, Auckland, Dec 28 - Jan 9. l.d4 Af6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.4c3 exd5 5.Axd5 nowhere to go. 1-0 NZ Rapid Championship,2001, Waitemata CC, Jan 10-l I,2001, Axd5 6.Uxd5 Qe7 1.AR Ac6 8.a3 0-0 9.e3 d6 Clubs are asked to sapply details of 1999 and 2000 eyents as soon as dates are finalised NZ Chess NZ Chess r T l4 15

are games played by NZ team meets tough opposition in China. . . Here the most successful Sarfati in Australia Ryan Trass: Sonter,M - Sarfati,J NguyenrT Trass,R [c68] A 5-player team travelled to Shenyang in day proved gruelling. - 8] Variation Gold Coast Open, 1999 play [B3 Symmetrical Northem China in October to in two The low point came early when our team R8 Notes by Jonathan Sadati events hosted by the Chinese Chess Association snatched jaws victory defeat out of the of 1.e4 e5 2.aB Ac6 3.Qb5 a6 4.Qxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 l.d4 Af6 2.c4 c5 3.4f3 96 4.Aca Qg7 5.e4 cxd4 and the Shenyang Muncipal Government as against , but they were able to re- exd4 7.Uxd4 Sxd4 8.Axd4 QaZ S.Qel 6.Axd4 d6 7.Qe2 0-0 8.0-0 6c6 9.Qe3 Qd7 Ed6 6.d4 paft of Shenyang's 1999 chess and bridge festi- verse this later against the German team from 10.6c3 11.4b3 b6l2.z4 a5 13.Hfd1 10.R Ub6 ll.Az4UaSl2"Ab5 Qe6 13.Ecl Ad7 0-0-0 Qd6 val. Starnberg in a much more important match with 14.Qd4 ts.Ad2 Qe6 t6.Ae2 t4-a3 a6 15.b4 Ed8 76.Ad4 6xd4 17.Qxd4 6b7 f6 The team consisted of NM Peter Green, Nigel a side bet of a dozen beer! The team finished Qxd4+ 18.Hxd4 Ec8 19.Hc3 a5 20.Hfc1 axb4 White lacks outposts for his Ns, and is drift- Hopewell, PauI Spiller, Hilton Bennett and Bob level with Singapore on 1 1.5 points. 2l.axb4 Ha8 22.Qdl Ae5 23.We3 Axc4 24.Yxc4 mg. Gibbons, and the two events were the second The Asian teams championship was equally Qxc4 25.Ab6 Qbs zo.Axaa Uxa8 27.Qb3 e6 16...Ae7 17.Qe3 A96 ls.ad4 Qc8 19.4c4 Hhe8l World Cities Championship and the Asian team tough, with 15 GMs and 25 IMs among the 70 28.Ed1 Hc8 29.Ub6 Ua3 30.Uxb5 Uxb3 31.Hfl 20.R championship. players. Uzbekistan, with a score of 23136, just Hc2 32.h4 h6 33.6h2 Wb2 34.Hgl Ef6 35.6h3 2O.Axd6+ Exd6 2l.B f5 with strong pressure. Bob Gibbons reports that the world teams won the toumament by half a point ahead opf s 95 36.Ud3 Wf4 37.g3 94+ 38.fxg4 Brz o-r 20...Qf8 21.c3 c5 22.Abs Qe6 23.Aba3 h6 24.93 event was won by the from Kemerovo Kasakstan, India and the all on $ f5 25.e5 Qd5 I Trass,R. Switzer,T with the Chinese team from Handon second. 22.5, China A and China B both on 22 and - 25...Hxd1+ 26.Hxd1 Qxc4 27.Axc4 Axe5 [A'06] King's Indian Attack Initially seeded 1 1th of the 14 teams competing, ChinaC on27.5. R3 would win a p, but relieves a lot of Black's Auckland finished in l2th place. The event was New Zealand finished on 6, in 15h place pressure, and the extra p is doubled. 4.e3 5.Qb5 a6 extremely strong, with a quarter of the partici- among the 16 teams. t.Af3Af6 2.b3 d5 3.Qb2Ac6 Qf5 26.f4 Qe7 27.Hd2 Qc6 28.4b5 Hxd2 29.Qxd2 6.Qxc6+ bxc6 7.0-0 e6 8.6d4 c5 9.Axf5 exf5 pants GMs and another quarter IMs. The aver- Although the going was tough, there was a18 10.Uf3 11.c4 c6 l2.Ac3 Qg7 13.cxd5 Axd5 age ratings of the teams was 2375, so it was much of interest in the New Zealanders' games. 96 White's protected passed pe5 will be securely 14.Hac1 0-0 ls.Hfdl AAq M.aq cxd4 17.exd4 difficult throughout. The accomodation and A fulI report by PauI Spiller, along with a se- blockaded by Ne6. Then Black can prepare 95, Hc8 18.a3 AdS l9.Aa4 He8 20.6c5 a5 21,93 venue were excellent, but playing two rounds a lection of games, will appear in the December with a clear plus because of his unopposed We7 22.Hc2 Qh6 23.Qc1 f4'/r1/, light-squared B, and White's lack of counter- play. lf White tries to defend the K-side, then . . .and Ryan Trass also finds it tough in Vietnam Trass,R - Hoang,H Black could make use of his Q-side majority [806] Pirc, Modem Defence supported by the B pair. The field of 22 players in the 1999 Asian Sasikaran,K Mas,H R6 - 30.b4 Junior Boys' Championship, played in Vung [Ee7] 1.e4 96 2.d4 Qg7 3.f4 c6 4.Af3 d5 5.e5 h5 This desperate move just loses a p and opens Tau, Vietnam, included five IMs and four FMs, R8 6.Qd3 ah6 7.ac3 QfS 8.ae2 e6 9.d ad7 10.0-0 lines for Black's Bs. and two-thirds of the field held FIDE ratings. l.d4 Af6 2.c4 96 3.Ac3 Qg7 4.e4 d6 5.aA 0-0 7t.Ag5 QfB r2.6h1 Qe7 13.691 Qxd3 h4 30...cxb4 31.cxb4 axb4 32.4e3 Qc5 33.6fI Qe4 Top seeded was the Indian player, K Sasikiran 6.Qe2 e5 7.Qe3 Ag4 8.Qg5 f6 9.Qh4 tse8 10.0-0 l4.Sxd3 Qxg5 15.fxg5 Afs l6.AR Ue7 17.Qe3 34.94 35.gxf5 gxf5 36.6e1 Ae6 37.a5 bxa5 (2536) and he ran out the winner with 8.5/11. Ac6 11.d5 Ae7 t2.Ad2 h5 13.h3 Ah6 t4.Hct cS 0-0-0 18.QI2 6b8 19.b4 Ab6 20.a4 Ac4 96 38.Hxa5 Qb6 39.Hal b3 4o.Ac4 AU qt.Axtl Hidden strength in the field was reveazled when 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.b4 Qe6 17.4b3 Hd8 18.4a5 2l.Hfel ba9 22.Ha2 Hc8 23.a5 Ehs 24.8b1 b6 Qxd4 42-At5+ 6c8 43.Axb3 Qxal and Black Darwin Laylo, of the Philippines, who was ds l9.Ab7 Eb8 20.4c5 Qf7 21.Aa6 Ec8 25.8e2 EchS 26.Efl EdS 27.Ec2We7 1/r/z J won easily. 0-1 unseeded, finished second on 8, ahead of 22.cxd5 cxd5 23.exd5 Ud8 24.d6 Aef' 25.d7 Hafizulhilmi Mas, of Malaysia. Hc6 26.Ua4 Hd627.Ae4 Ed4 28.Hc8 Eb6 1 Ryan Trass scored 2, with one win and two 29.Hc6 Hxe4 30.Exb6 axb6 31.Edl 6d4 2000 South I Championship in Dunedin, but others - where? draws, but most of his games were well played. 32.Qd3 Hxh4 33.93 Exh3 34.Qfl Am+ ls.6gZ Hh2+ venues three brating its 1256 anniversary. The 2000-2001 There were 16 players in the girls' champi- 36.6xR Ag4 37.Qg2 e4+ 38.6xe4 f5+ NZCF is still looking for for 39.68 Ae5+ 40.6e3 Exg2 4l.Hd4 Ag4+ year Is- NZ Championship has been allocated to Wait- onship, two of them Women's Intemational national toumaments next - the North 42.Hxg4 fxg4 43.Uc6 Qh6+ 44.6e2 HxO+ (July school holidays), the emata CC, so two congresses in succession will Masters and three WFMs. Yu Wang, of China, land Championship 45.6e1 Qd2+ 46.6d1 Qg5 47.4c7 Hf6 4S.Ebs (JuIy be held in Auckland. third seed on 2221 rating, won by going NZ Junior Championship school holi- Hd6+ 49.6e1 Qd8 50.Ae8 Ee6+ 51.6d2 Qxe8 Championship (Easter Federation Council hopes clubs are giving through unbeaten to score 10/11, ahead ofKieu days) and NZ Women's 52.dxe8U Hfxe8 0-1 or Birthday weekend). thought to the events not yet allocated, so deci- Thien Kim Le, of Vietnam, on 9.-5, and S Queen's Championship will sions about them can be made at the annual Vijayalakshmi, of India on 8.5. Next year's South Island CIub is cele- meeting during the coming Congress. The boys' toumament winner lost one game, be held in Dunedin, as the Otago to the second seed. Here is that game, which featured sharp play on both sides:

NZ Chess NZ Chess t6 l1 16.0-0 Correspondence chess l4.Ad2 cxd4 15.AgR Qe7 By Gordon HoslEn The d-p can wait. I wasn't about to enter a losing line. Seven N.Z. correspondence players have Elo Reserve Championship: A Short 5/6, EN 16...0.-0 l7.Efel b5 ratings exceeding 2,200 rating points. Roberts 3/4, EGAFrost2.516,JC Rapp 2/4, GE With the intention of controlling c4. Disas- NZCF President and life member Peter Stuan Lovelock 1.5/3, CA Mold Yz, JCX Rapp 1/3, trously, Black's Q is now cut off from the main is not a top-rank administrator, he is also a BM Williams 1/3, KG Reed 0/1, RS Philtips only scene ofaction. most accomplished correspondence player. Pe- ot2. Hfc8 20.Hadl Ha6 21.Qb1 ter heads the national rating list with 2350 TT 2: JCV Larsen 8/10, BJ Edwards 7.5/11, 18.Axd4 Qd7 l9.cS points. Even the in-form Bruce Barnard, who DE Dolejs 3/3, J Veldhuizen216, W Anderson Intending to centralise. has won the last three NZ championships, plays 1.5l6,EAGidman 1.5/6, PC King 1.5/7. 21.,Ha7 22.Qd3 Hb7 23.c41 second fiddle to Stuart. TT 3: A N Hignett 617, CM Ford 5/5, GH The c4 square proves vulnerable after all. As Here are the leading players and their ratings: Mills 4.5/8, RGA Taylor 416,PE Rossiter 3.5/5, Changes the whole strategy of the game. Prr Tal remarked, in such positions, combinations Stuart 2350, Barnard 2340, Michael Hampl PG Coghini 3/6, AW Hendry 2/4, LR Cotton & and also allows Black's f-p to ad- are as natural as a baby's smile! 2335, Russell Dive2285, John Barrance 2255, 1.5/8, BG Sullivan .5/6. ;;*r"r*, Maurice Heasman 2245 attd Tim Doyle 2215. TT 4: RR Trevis 4/5, A Clark 3/3, CL Ward 23.,Ac7 24.Ae4 bxc4 25.Qxc4 Qb5 26.axb5 2O.HaeZ f5 The NZCCA master points list has also been 3/3, LI Purvis 0/4, SR Chowdhury 0/5. ? AxbS 27.Qxf6 push strategy is in updated by Peter Sh.rart, to include only those Unable to his e-p, White's The sting in the tail, smashing Black's p shield. tatters. years. players players active in the last 20 Nine Selected games 27 ..,Qxf6 28.Axf6+ gxf6 2t.Hc2Vf7 22.93 a6 23.h3 Hf6 hold the NZ master title by amassing 25 or These games are from the curreht tourneys: more master points. They are Michael Freeman Slowly increasing the pressure on the White 39.8 (an International Correspondence Master), Dive,RJ - Frost,L k's position. Paul Garbett and Bob Smith 39.5, Michael lA00l 24.Hg2Yg6 25.Hee2 Ae6 26.bf2? 66th NZCCA Champ, 1999 Hampl 37.5, Peter Stuart 34.0, Bruce Bamard Adding a royal touch to the defence of the p Notes by Jack Frost 33.5, Maurice Heasman 30.1, Russell Dive 30.0 line-up. A sad mistake, it is probable that26.h4 and Roger Chapmman 25.0 (also an ICM). l.d4 at6 2.c4 e6 3.4c3 9,b4 4.e3 0-0 5.Qd3 c5 could have extended the game. 6.Aa d5 7.0-0 b6 8.cxd5 exds 9.a3 26..,t4',! 27.g4 Michael Rocks retiring Black gains early equality in this variation of I think Russell had gambled on this move to Michael Rocks is to retire from the position of the Nimzoindian. Whilst a3 is thematic, my relieve the pressure. handicap toumey director and certificate tour- preference would be Ne5 or dxc5. 27..,fxe3+ ney director at the end of the current season. 9...Qxc3 10.bxc3 Qa6 11.Qxa6 Axa6 But ifhe had, he'd overlooked this one! After 10 years of outstanding service to both the association and the membership, Michael is There goes White's good B! 28.Hxe3 Aef4 29.Hh2 Hxe3 to take a well-earned rest. t2.Qb2 c413.4d2 He8 14.Hel If 30.Nxe3, Nd3+ wins quickly. Not 30.Kxd3, 29.Eds Nd3! And 30. Re2+. During his decade in the hot seat, many timely The Rubinstein variation is all about White if Qd2, The R can't be taken. 29...exd5 30.Qg4+. and necessary changes were introduced by him. gaining space and attacking the centre by push- $ 30.6xe3 Afi+ 31.691 He6 32.gxh5 29...Hcb8 30.Hh5 Thank you, Michael, for a job very well done. ing the e-p. Russell tries an unusual, though not Might as well take this N, there's no other His successor will be Wellington's Philip completely unknown, way of facilitating this p c defence. Capitalising on the Q-side pins. Coghini, who has big shoes to fill, but carries push. 32...Exe3 33.He2 Ael 34.Wb2 6xR+ 35.6f2 30...Ua5 31.Ue3 618 32.Uxh6+ 6e7 33.We3 Eb6 the best wishes of the membership. 14...He615.afl Ad2+'!l 34.Uc5+ Hd6 35.Hxe6+ continuing with Mate in 2.If 36.Kxe4, Nf8++. 0--1 elegant sacrifice to fatally expose the Trophy tourneys progress With the clear intention of An Ng3. Black K. Progress scores in the 1999-2000 trophy tour- Frost,L - VossrP neys: 15...4c716.R Ue7 17.a4 He8 lBl7l 35...fxe6 36.Hh7+ 6d8 37.Hh8+ 6d7 38.Qxb5+ HP Whitlock Memorial Championship: LB Black is also eyeing that e4 p push! 66th NZCCA Championship, 1999 1-0 Frost 6/8, GA Hoskyn 5/8, ML Dunwoody Notes by Jack Frost 18.Qa3 Ud7 19.Ha2 Millar,B Dunwoody,M 3.5/5, TJ Doyle 314, BW Millar 3/5, PJ Voss l.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Ac3 dxe4 4.Axe4 Ad7 5.Q.c4 - Too slow! Ng3 was imperative. [Dos] 1.5/4, PAR Vetharaniam 1i3, HP Bennett 1/3, Agf6 6.Ags e6 7.We2 ab6 8.Qb3 h6 9.458 as 66thNZCCA Champ, 1999 PB Goffin .5l2,DI Cooper .5/3, RI Dive 012. 19...4h5! 10.a3 a4 11.Qa2 c5 l2.Qf4 Abds13.Qe5 Ua5+ Notes by Mwray Dunwoody

NZ Chess NZ Chess 18 t9 1.d4 d5 2.aR af6 3.e3 e6 4.Qd3 c5 5.c3 Qd6 22...Hh9 23.Ug5+ 1999 World Championship, Las Vegas 6.dbd2 Atal l.o-o Uc7 8.Eel 0-0 9.e4 dxe4 Too late. By NM Peter Stuart 10.Axe4 6xe4 11.Hxe4 c4 l2.Qc2 Hd8 13.Hh4 23...6f8 2a.> @b7 25.Uf6 Eg8 26.495 We7 h6 14.9d2 bs? 27.4h7+ 6e8 28.93 6d8 29.Ue5 f5 30.4f6 Hg6 The second FIDE knock-out style World There were only minor upsets in the first When I set up my board I thought White's Q 31.ahs Egs Championship started on 31" July in Caesar's round though several of the higher rated players was on e2. This was the way I had written it in Now Black gets going. Palace in the world's gambling capital; proba- had to come back from first game defeats, most my score book!! 32.af4q!h6 33.ud6+ 6e8 34.d5? bly an apt venue given the lottery effect of notably (at least in retrospect) Alexander Khal- 15.Hg4 Af6 16.Uxh6 Axg4 t7.Wh7+ 618 Brian had forgotten about the pin on his R on playng two-game matches. The total prize fund ifman, who was well beaten by Dibyendu Barua 18.9h8+ 6e7 19.Uxg7 Qxh2+ 20.6f1 Qf4 c1. was three million dollars (NZD5.88m) of which (India) in their first game. Khalifman broke 2l.Hxg4 Qxcl 22.Excl 207o went into FIDE coffers. Of the remaining back, won the first tie-break game and lost the 22.Qg5+ or would have been a better 34...8d8 35.Ue5 Qxd5 0-1 Qh4+ $2.4m the 36 players eliminated in the first second, finally taking the l5-minute games 7lz- bet. Then White can play Rxcl. White has round each took home $4800 and the 32 round lz. Sergey Dolmatov was another who needed allowed Black to play 22.Rh8, which is a no-no 2 losers The prize money then doubled a win against a lower rated opponent game 2'. at this stage of the game. $8640. in round by round until the semi-finals Dolmatov Kotsur ($138,240). The Iosing finalist won $316,000 - Sicilian Kasparov beats The World and the new champion $528,000. [B42] l.e4 c5 2.AR e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 a6 5.Qd3 96 6.c4 Qg7 7.Ab3 Ae7 8.4c3 9.0-0 abc6 Top players not there 0-0 r0.Qf4 d5 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Ue2 d4 B.Abl Ab4 Two notable late withdrawals were Anatoly The Kasparov vs. the World chess match, 2O.lUf7 Qd4 2l.h3Hxa4 22.Hxa4 Uxa4 23.Uxh7 l4.Ald2 Axd3 15.Uxd3 Ac6 16.4R He8 Karpov and Alexander Morosevich, replaced which started on June 21, ended on October 23 Qxb2 24.Hxg6 He4 25.Wft Qd4 26.Wb3 t4 17.Hfd1 Qg4 18.a3 Ue7 l9.Abd2 QxI3 20.UxR Vadim and Alexei Dreev respec- with a victory for Kasparov. Over 3 million 27.8f7 QeS 28.h4 b5 29.h5 Wc4 30.9f5+ We6 by Milov d3 21.Hxd3 Qxb2 22.Ha2 HadS 23.Ug3? 31.Uxe6+ 6xe6 32.93 33.fxg3 34.Qt4 tively. It was well known that Gary Kasparov visitors from over 75 countries took part in the fxg3 b4 23.We3. event. Qd4+ 35.6h1 b3 36.94 6d5 37.95 e6 38.h6 Ae7 and Vishy Anand would not be taking part as The game was a fascinating one, much, much 39.Hdl e5 40.Qe3 6c4 41.Qxd4 exd4 42.bg2 b2 they had their own version of a championship 43.6R 6c3 44.h1 A96 45.6e4 6c2 46.Hh1 d3 better than anyone had any right to expect, at match, though it now looks as though they will 47.6f5 blg 48.Hxb1 6xbl 49.6xg6 d2 50.hBW least until the final stages. The event took place miss out on both events. Alexei Shirov, who drE 51.8h7 on the MSN network., and The World voted won Kasparov's candidates series only to see with the help of advisers Etienne Bacrot, 16, Gary renege on the right to challenge for his Florin Felecan, 19, Irina Krush, 15, and Elisa- title. was playing in Las Vegas, as was Cata beth Piihtz, 14. GM Danny King acted as mod- Kamsky who chose a tough arena for a come- erator. back after several years studying medicine. The event finished controversially with accu- The format for the first five rounds, up to the sations that some players used multiple votes to quarter-final stage, was for two-game matches choose moves that caused a critical position for using a Fischer time control of 40 moves in 100 the Wodd to become definitely lost. Subject to minutes, 20 moves in 50 minutes, and all re- conhrmation by Kasparov's analysis, 51. ...Kal maining moves in 10 minutes with additional 23...Hxe4t 24.Hfl was a clear draw. time of 30 seconds for each move. If tie break- 24.Yr.b2 He1+ 25.Hxel Hxel+ 26.4fl Eddl When The World resigned, Kasparov had ing was necessary then a pair of 25-minute -+. analysis to the hnal position which showed a rapid games were played followed, if necessary, 24..Vc2 25.Ug5 He2 26.h4 Hdxd2 27.Qxd2 forced win for him (mate in 25 !). by a pair of l5-minute rapid games; in all the Hxd2 28.8e1 Hdl 29.Ue3 gbl 30.Exd1 Exdl+ s1... b5 rapid games each player gained an extra 10 31.6h2 gbl 1-0. The position which became the subject of Kasparov,G The World seconds with each move. If there was still no - conffoversy, with analysis that 5l...Kal would Sicilian result then the match went into sudden death The 28 top seeded players entered the fray in [B52] lead to a draw. Intemet game blitz mode, White having 4 minutes to Black's round 2 and five of them were immediately 52.6f6+ 6b2 53.8h2+ 6a1 s4.Uf4 b4 55.Sxb4 5 and both players receiving additional time of eliminated: Kamsky, Sadler, Sakaev, Salov and 1.e4 c5 LaB d6 3.Qb5+ Qd7 4.Qxd7+ UxdT Uf3+ s6.6g7 d5 57.9d4+ 6bt s8.g6 Ue4 Smirin. The American took fuIl advantage of a 5.c4 Ac6 6.Ad af6 7.0-0 8.d4 cxd4 9.Axd4 ten seconds per move. The semi-finals were of 96 59.ug1+ 6b2 60.uf2+ 6c1 61.6f6 d4 62.97 t-0 Khalifman mistake in their first game but the Qg7 10.Ade2 Ue6 11.4d5 Exe4 t2.Ac7+ hd7 four normal games and the final was of six Russian won the second game and took the 25 13.6xa8 Uxc4 14.4b6+ axb6 15.6d Ha8 16.a4 games. play-off games lVz-Yz. Yeteran Yiktor Ae4 l7.Axe4 Uxe4 18.Hb3 f5 19.Qg5 Hb4 Rounds I and2 minute

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Korchnoi had a WLWLWW sequence to end 44.Ecxa6 Afs ns.Qxtrs Axe3 46.Qxe8?? highly-regarded Evgeny Bareev. The ultra- on the second day of the event. After three Dolmatov's interest in the event. 46.fxe3 Val+ 47.&A Hxe3 48.Qxe8 Hxd3+ smooth progress of and draws Ivanchuk uncorked an astonishing 13th 49.bxd3 is unclear. Vassily Ivanchuk continued, both players look- move blunder with the black pieces and re- Kamsky - Khalifrnan 46...Sa1+ 47.bd2 Ub2+ 0-1. ing to be in top form. This did not mean that signed on seeing White's reply. Game 1[B83] Sicilian progress was necessarily smooth for all the top The results: Topalov - Kramnik %-%, y2- Korchnoi Dolmatov 1.e4 c5 2.AB d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 s.Aca - seeds. Shirov, for example, looked to be weath- /2,0-1 ,0-'l1' Adams - Dreev %-%, Y2-Y2, Game I Dutch .1 e6 6.Qe2 Ac6 7.0-0 Qe7 8.Qe3 0-0 9.f4 e5 [A88] ering a severe stom in his second game but y2-y2, %-%, -0, 1-0; Movsesian - Fedorov l0.6xc6 bxc6 11.6h1 Qe6 12.Qf3 Qc4 13.Hel t.c4 f5 LAR Ate 3-gs d6 4.d4 96 5.Qg2 Qg7 blundered in time trouble. As in round 2, how- yz-yz, y2-%, %-y2, y2-%, 1-0, /z-%; Georgiev 7.ac3 6hs 9.Hd1 aa6 adl 14.b3 Qa6 15.f5 af6 16.94 h6 17.95 hxg5 6.0-0 0-0 c6 s.ub3 ever, he dominated the rapid games. - Akopian Vz-%,0-1; Polgar - Zvjaginsev 10.Ua3 Ue8 11.b4 Ac7 l2.Qb2 e5 13.dxe5 dxe5 18.Qxg5 Ah7 19.Qe3 Qb7 20.891 Qf6 21.Hg3 y2-y2,y2-y2, 1-0, 'l-0; Khalifman - Gelfand cxd5 e4 24.Axf6+ Wxf6 l4.Wa5 Aa6 15.b5 b6 16.8a3 Ac5 17.bxc6 e4 Shipov lvanchuk d5 22.exd5 23.Axd5 - Yz-Y2, Yz-1/2, 1-0, /r-Yr; Nisipeanu 25.Qe2 Uxfs 26.Wd4 27.Hf1. Wg6 28.Qc4 ls.ad4 Hfl ts.Hact Qe6 20.Acb5 a6 21.4d6 Game 2 Nimzoindian 95 [E39] lvanchuk y2-yz, yz-y2, /z-%, 1-0; Shirov - 29.h4 Hxc4 30.bxc4 31.Exg4 Uxg4 Ec7 22.ab7l-0. Hac8 94 l.d4 af6 2.c4 e6 3.6c3 Qb4 4.Hc2 c5 5.dxc5 Shortl-O,%-%. 32.Hgr Hxgl+ 33.6xgl f6 34.Uxa7 Hf7 0-0 6.a3 Qxc5 7.68 b6 8.Qg5 Qb7 9.e3 h6 Round 3 3s.Eb8+ 697 36.Ug3+ 6h8 37.Qh6 r-0. 10.Qh4 Qe7 1l.Edl d6l2.Qe2 a6 13.0-0 Wc7 Nisipeanu lvanchuk The full results were as follows (winners - t4.Hd2 AbdT ls.Hfdl HfdS 16.8b1 AcS t7.Hc2 Game 4 Scotch Khalifman - Kamsky in bold): V.Korchnoi (SWl, 2676) [C45] HacS 18.4d4 6ce4 19.QR Axc3 20.Hxc3 QxR l.e4 e5 2.4f3 Ac6 3.d4 exd4 4.6xd4 Qc5 Game2 [El5] Queen's tndian V.Kramnik (BUS, 2760) Yz-Yz, 0-1; .Eb7 21.gxf3? 22.bg2 95 23.Qg3 94 24.h3 5.Axc6 Uf6 6.Ud2 dxc6 7.4c3 We7 8.Qe2 Af6 1.6R af6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 b6 4.g3 Qa6 5.b3 Qb4+ V.Topalov (BUL, 2690) - L.Psakhis (lSR, gxf3+ 25.6h2 6hB 26.Hcc1 Hc5 27.b4 Hh5 9.0-0 Axe4 l0.Axe4 Uxe4 11.He1 0-0 12.Qd3 6.Qd2 Qe7 1.Qg2 c6 8.Qc3 d5 9.abd2 0-0 2581) 1-0, %-%; Z.Almasi (HUN, 2663) - 28.Hh1 HgS 29.8d3 gds 13.b4 Qxf2+?? 10.8c2 abdT 11.e4 Ec8 12.0-0 Axe4 l3.Axe4 M.Adams (ENG, 27OB) Y2-Y2, 0-1; Presumably expecting l4.bx??? Ud4+ and dxe4 14.Hxe4 b5 15.c5! b4 16.Qxb4 af6 S.Rublevsky (RUS, 2660) - A.Dreev (RUS, l5...Uxalwinning; alas. . . 17.8e1 Ad5 18.Qa5 Ue8 l9.We4 Qxfl 20.Qxf1 2679) yz-%,0-1; J.Timman (NED, 2650) - 14.SxO 1-0. Qf6 21.h4 96 22.h5 Qd8 23.Qd2 f5 24.Ue2 A.Fedorov (BLR, 2659) 0-1,V2-Tz; P.Leko gxh5 25.Hel Hf6 26.Qh3 h627.Ah4Hn zt.Qgz (HUN, 2701) - S.Movsesian (CZE, 2659) Shirov - Short Qc7 29.QR Sg7 30.Wa6 Ud7 3l.Qxhs Qb8 %-%, %-%, O-1, %-%; K.Georgiev (BUL, Game I [C11] French 32.AR bh7 33.4e5 Qxe5 34.dxe5 HffS 35.Ue2 2650) - P.Svidler (RUS, 2684) 1-O, %-%; l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.4c3 Ate +QgS dxe4 5.Axe4 Hg8 36.692 Ug7 37.Hhl fa 38.QR EgfS E.Bareev (RUS, 2698) - V.Akopian (ARM, Qe7 6.Qxf6 gxf6 7.AR AAI e.Qcl c5 9.0-0 0-0 39.Qe4+ Hf5 40.Qxf5+ exf5 41.Uh5 Ug6 2646) Y2-%, Y2-%, O-1, J.Magem 10.Hel Ab6 1l.QfI cxd4 l2.Axd4 6h8 13.c3 42.Hxg6+ 6xg6 43.6f3 Hd8 44.Qxf4 h5 45.Hdl %-%; (ESP, 2s28) - J.Polgar (HUN,2671) v2-v2, cs 14.8h5 ad5 &fl7 46.Hh1 696 47.He1 AAq qS.HeZ Ad3 49.e6 But not 74...exd4?? l5.Axf6 Qxf6 l6.Qd3 6xc5 50.e7 He8 51.Hc2 Ad3 52.Hxc6+ 617 0-1; M.Krasenkov (POL, 2647) 53.Qd6 HxeT 54.Qxe7 Ae5+ 55.6f4 6xc6 V.Zvjaginsev (RUS) 0-1, Vz-Uz; J.Lautier mating. 56.Qc5 6e6 57.b4 a6 58.695 6e5 59.6xh5 6d5 (FRA, 2638) - B.Gelfand (15R,2713)v2-v2, l5.Had1 y2-y2, y2-y2, 60.695 6e4 61.f4 aff 62.Q,e7 Ab2 63.a3 Adl lz-/2, 0-1 , 0-1i A.Khalifman 29...Hxg3! 30.6xg3 l5.Ae2 is intrinsically better but Shirov de- 64.a4 Ac3 65.b5 axb5 66.a5 ad5 67.a6 l-0. (RUS, 2628) - K.Asrian ( RM, 2575) yz-yz, 30.fxg3 Ag4+ 31.bgl t2+. cides to stake everything on his attack. 1-0; R.Leitao (BRA, 2574) - L.Nisipeanu 30...Hg5+ 31.6h4 Ae4 0-1. 15...exd4 16.Exd4 fs tl.Ag3 Qcs rd.HOZ UrO Shirov - Sokolov (RUM, 2584) Y2-Y2, Y2-Y2, Y"-Yr, 0-1; 19.Ue2 Game 1 [C42] Petroff V.lvanchuk (UKR, 2702) - S.Shipov (RUS, Round 4 It would be nice to dissuade the Qc5 from 1.e4 e5 2.AR Af6 3.6xe5 d6 4.AR Axe{ 5.d4 2658) 1-0, 1-0; A.Belyavsky (SLO, 2618) - In round four the 16 remaining players were continuing its attack on f2 by playing I 9.b4 but d5 6.Qd3 Ac6 7.0-0 Qe7 8.Ee1 Qg4 9.c4 Af6 N.Short (ENG, 2675) O-1, %-/z; A.Shirov playing for places in the quarter-finals which this runs into 19...Qxf2+l 20.Hxf2 Af6 2l.UB5 10.4d 0-0 11.cxd5 Axd5 12.h3 Qe6 13.a3 Qf6 when simply (ESP, 2734) - G.Milos (BRA, 2s86) 1-0, would guarantee almost $70,000 to the losers. 694 White will be material down t4.Ae4 QIS 15.Ub3 ab6 16.d5 Qxe4 l7.9xe4 an attack. 0-1,1-0,1-0. Safety first tactics were in evidence in most of without Ae7 18.Qe3 AecS l9.Hacl Ad6 20.Qb1 Ed7 19...4t6 20.Ue5 698 xe8+ 697 24. 21.h3 He} In three of the four quarters (the results are the matches, Ieading to many draws and ulti- 21.8c5 96 22.Hecl HacS 23.4d4 a6 24.Qa2 22.Uxe8+ AxeS 23.Hb4 Uc6 given in draw order so the first four results mate decisions coming in the rapid play-offs. HfeS 25.Ud3 Aet zs.Has Ud6 27.b4 Qe5 2s.Aa 24...Qd6!? 25.Hxd6! Uxd6 Uxg3! quarter, The exception to this was the match between 26.Hxc8 Qb2 29.Hc2 Qg7 30.Qc5 gd7 31.Qb3 EcdS belong to the top etc) the higher-rated Shirov and Nigel Short which featured two 27.Hxa8 Uxc3 28.Exa7 Uxb4 would be a draw. 32.Qe3 tsd6 33.Hac5 Hd7 34.dd2 af6 35.4c4 player won every match but in the second complex fighting games. Two more 2700+ 2s.Hdd8 Qb6 26.Hg8+ 6f6 Axc4 36.Qxc4 Ae4 37.Ha5 HdeT 38.Qb3 Qe5 quarter there were three "upsets" with Peter players deparled, 26...&h6 27.Exc8 Uxc8 (forced, as 27...Hxc8? 39.Qa4 Irko becoming the second 2700+ (after Kam- including unpredicatable Qh2+ 40.6fr allows rnate in 2) 28.Hxc8 Hxc8 29.Axf5+ 695 sky) to go, while overcame a Ivanchuk who lost to the Rumanian surprise 40.6h1? Axf2+l 41.Oxf2 He1+. probably packet Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu who turned 23 is also drawn. 40...493+! 41.6e1 b5 42.8c6 Ue5 43.d6 cxd6 52-point rating difference in disposing of the

NZ Chess NZ Chess 22 23 27.ahs+ 6e5 28.Hd3 Eh6 29.Qe2 Ucl+ 30.8d1 l.AR Af6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 d5 4.4c3 dxc4 5.e4 Qb4 18.Qxd5! Bxb5 6xd4 10.6xd4 a6 11.He1 Uc7 12.Qb3 Qd7 gxca+ Exca 31.Q8 Qe6?! 6.Qg5 c5 7.Qxc4 cxd4 8.Axd4 9.bxc3 Obviously the bishop cannot be taken. 13.84 Qd6 14.h3 0-0-0 15.c3 h6 16.a4 6b8 Ua5 10.Qb5+ Qd7 11.Qxf6 gxf6 12.Wb3 a6 l7.We2 18.Qe3 QhZ+ 19.6h1 Qf4 20.Qxf4 Parrying the threatened mat e in 2 but 31...Qd4 19.Qxc4 Eb6 20.fxe6 0-0-0 2l.exfl Ae7 95 l3.Qe2 6c6 14.0-0 Uc7 15.Hab1 4a5 16.Ua3 32.He8+ Qe5 33.Hxa8 Ub2 was a better way of 22.We6+ 6nt z:.Qg+ 6a8 24.Uxb6 axb6 gxf4 21.Ue5 Uxe5 22.Hxe5 Qc6 23.Hd1 HhgS Hc8 17.c4 Bc5 25.Qc2 26.h4 27.Hee1. bc7 doing it. 25.Qe5 HhfS! 26.6e2 24.R Qd5 &c7 &d6 l't ...lvc4? has been tr-ied before in a 1988 28.a5 ahs 29.&h2 agl Su.Qat Qc6 31.Qb3 Qds 32.Hxa8 Hxb4 33.He8 Qd4 26.Qxg7 Qd3+ 27.Qxd3 HxfT+ 28.Qf5 Oxf5 game Eingorn-Yudasin which continued 32.Qa4 Qc6 33.Axc6 bxc6 34.Qc2 Ed5 35.Hxd5 The threat was 34.Hd5 mate. 29.gxf5 Hxf5+ 30.0e1 Hdd5 31.6f6 Hfe5+ 18.Qxc4 Uxc4 19.Hfdl Uc3 and now White cxds 36.Qd3 Hb8 37.b4 6b7 38.c4 dxc4 34.Hd8 Qb6 35.a3 Sa5 32.6f1 Hf5+ with a draw by perpetual check. could have obtained good attacking chances by 39.Qxc4 6a7 40.Hbl Hc8 41.Qb3 Hc3 42.Qa4 35...Sxa3? 36.He1+. playing 20.4b3. 26...4ds 27.Hhf-t? e5 43.Qe8 f5 44.h5 e4 45.fxe4 fxe4 46.Qg6 e3 36.88d2 f4 31.QgA Qc4 38.He1+ Qe3 39.Hdd1 r8.Ec3 e5 19.4b3 axb3 20.axb3 a5 21.Hfd1 27.Axg7 HxfT 28.4e6 Hf2+ (28...He71? 47.&h3 e2 48.bg4 att lg.bxtq 6d 50.6R elu Qb3 40.Hb1 Q,c2 41.Hb4 f5 Qe6 22.h3 0-0 23.Ug3+ 6h8 24.9h4 Ee7 29.AxdB Exe5+ 30.6d2 Q.e3+ 31.6d1 Qf4) Sl.Hxel Ac2+ 52,bf2 Axel 53.6xel Hc4 54.&t2 4l...Uxa3 42.Hxf4. 25.Q,g4 HgS 26.Hd3 Hg5 27.Qxe6 Uxe6 29.&el Ab4 30.Axc5 Hdd2 31.Hc1 and Black Hxb4 55.6R Ha4 56.94 Hxa5 57.Qf5 Hb5 42.QR Qe4 43.fxe3 QxR 44.gx8 Uxa3 45.Axf4 28.Hbd1 EcgS 29.Ed6! Uc8 draws by either 3l...48+ or 31...Qd3. After the 58.6f4 a5 59.95 Eb4+ 60.Qe4 hxg5+ 6r.6f5 94 b6 46.Hd4 1-0. 29...Hxs2+? 30.6f1 tse7 31.Hd7 Sf8 (31...Ue6? text move Black is winning. 62.h6 93 63.h7 Hb8 64.bf4 a4 65.6xg3 a3 0-1. 32.Hld6) 32.Hxf6+ #g7 33.Wxg7+ H2xg7 27...Ae3 2s.Qbs 6xfl 29.HxfI Qg6 30.8f4 Qd6 Quarter-finals Khalifman Nisipeanu 34.Hxb7 is probably won for White. 31.Qxd6 Exd6 32.Qc4 b5 33.Qb3 Qd3+ 34.6e3 - Two more 2700+ players were eliminated in Game 3 Queen's Indian 30.93 697 31.H1d5 h6 32.Hxe5l Hd8 95 35.Hf2 Qc4 36.Qxc4 bxc4 37.6e4 Hd7 [El2] round 5, leaving just Michael Adams from the t.d4 Af6 2.AR e6 3.c4 b6 4.a3 Qa6 5.Uc2 Qb7 32...Hxe5 33.Uxf6+ 6f8 34.gxe5 +-. 38.Hf6 HfxfT 39.Hxh6 HfeT+ 40.6f5 Hd5+ original seven. In the first knock-out champi- 6.4c3 c5 7.e4 cxd4 8.6xd4 6c6 9.Axc6 Qxc6 33.Hed5 Hxd6 34.Exd6 Eg6 35.Uf4 a4 36.bxa4 4l.bg6 He2 0-1. onship arguably the two strongest players r0.Qf4 Ahs 11.Qe3 gb8 12.93 Qc5 13.Qxc5 Uxc4 37.Hd8 Hc3 38.692 Sb4 39.Ea8 h5 fought out the final, even if one had a free Semi-finals bxc5 14.0-0-0 Af6l5.f4 0-0 16.Qg2 e5 17.f5 40.Ub8 Uxe4+ 41.6h2 Hg5 42.Wh8+ 696 passage to that final. The lottery factor seemed Michael Adams impatiently sacrificed a piece Ed8 18.QI3 Eb8 19.Hd2 96 20.Hfr 6h8 21.94 43.Hg8+ 6fs 44.8h7+ not to be important but in Las Vegas it became in game 1 against Akopian. Both players made gxfi 22.exfS QxR 23.Hxf3 Axg4 24.f6 Axf6 44... flg6 45.Uxh5+ Hg5 46.Hxg5+ fxg5 much more evident. mistakes with Adams unfortunately making the 25.Uf5 Hb6 26.Wxe5 He8 27.Uxc5 Ue7 28.Uxe7 47.Wxfl+ 6e5 48.Ue7+ 6f5 49.gxe4+ is clear. One more high seed had to go as Adams was game ExeT 29.c5 Ec6 30.b4 a5 3l.bc2 axb4 32.axb4 1-0. last one. After a draw in 2 Adams made playing Kramnik; after 2 draws Kramnik won a no headway with white in game 3 against 697 33.6b3 Ees 34.HdI2 Hce6 35.Hf5 696 pawn in each of the 25-minute games but Shirov - Nisipeanu Akopian's . Indeed Akopian 36.Hxe5 Hxe5 37.b5 He3 Adams was able to hold both endings. It was Game2 [B12] Caro-Kann gained the advantage and was able to end the 37...Hxc5 38.Hxf6+! Adams' turn in game 5; he gained an edge and -1..e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Qf5 4.Ac3 e6 5.g4 Qg6 match with no need for the fourth garne. Thus 38.Ee2 HR 39.b6 ads 40.b7 Hxc3+ 4t.bb2

was able to easily evade the complications 6.Age2 c5 7.h4 h6 8.f4 Qe7 9.Qg2 Qxh4+ the last of the 2700+ players was gone ! Hc4 42.b88 1-0. Kramnik sought by an exchange sacrifice. 1o.6fl Qe711.f5 Qh7 t2.Af4Wd7 In the other match both players missed better Perhaps the biggest upset of the entire event 12...cxd4? 13.fxe6l dxc3 14.exf7+ bxfT chances in the first game with nerves and tired- was the demise of Shirov at the hands of the 15.Uxd5+ 6e8 l6.Uxd8+ QxdS 17.Qxb7 and ness now playrng a major role. The second Nisipeanu - Khalifman Game 4 Scotch previously scarcely known Nisipeanu. Both White wins the exchange. game was quietly drawn and, after a rest day, [C45] players were happy to split the first point and 13.4h5 Qf8 14.dxc5 ac6 15.4b5 Qxc5 16.c4 Kahlifman inflicted upon Nisipeanu his first 1.e4 e5 2.AR Ac6 3.d4 exd4 4.Axd4 Qc5 Shirov then gained an attacking position with Axei l7.We2bxc4 defeat of the whole toumament. The Rumanian, 5.Axc6 Uf6 6.Ud2 dxc6 7.A8 Ae7 8.Uf4 Ee6 9.Qd3 10.0-0 696 11.Ug5 Ue5 12.Uxe5 the white pieces. He left his king too exposed, however, came back to win a fine endgame 0-0 6xe5 13.Qe2 Qg4 14.Qxg4 Axg4 15.h3 Af6 however, and Nisipeanu's counter attack carried after a serious mistake by Khalifman so the 16.Eel Hfe8 17.6f1 Qb4 18.f3 Hads 19.Of4 the day. Khalifman won his first game against rapid play-ofT would decide. Khalifman won Hd7 20.Had1 Qxc3 21.bxc3 Hed8 22.Hxd7 Judit Polgar who was unable to reciprocate in the first rapid game after a poor opening by HxdT 23.be2 bfa 24.94 6e8 25.h4 Ad6 26.h5 game 2, while Vladimir Akopian won the rapid criticism Nisipeanu, which drew some nasty Ahs 27.Qd2 f6 28.891 h6 29.Hd1 6e7 30.Qe1 play-off against Movsesian. from Gary Kasparov. The reverse happened in c5 32.bd2 ad6 33.6d3 Afl 34.f4 - Hxdl 31.6xd1 Detailed results: Kramnik AdamsVz-/2, the next game but Nisipeanu was unable to b6 35.c4 6e6 36.Qg3 6e7 37.Qh4 6e8 38.Qel Yz-%, Y2-Y2, Yz-%, O-1, 0'1; AkoPian - capitalise on his undoubted endgame advan- 6d7 39.Qd2 6e7 40.Qc1 6e6 41.Qb2 c6 42.Qc3 y2-%, y2-%, Movsesian 1-O, %-%; Khalif- tage. b5 43.Qe1 Ad6 44.cxb5 cxb5 45.Qf2 Ab7 man - Polgar 1-O, lz-lz; Nisipeanu - Shi- 46.f5+ bf7 47.e5 fxe5 48.6e4 b4 49.6xe5 c4 Adams Akopian rov Yz-/2, 1-0. - 50.6d5 aa5 51.Qd4 a6 52.Qe5 &g8 53.6c5 b3 Game French 3 [C07] 54.axb3 cxb3 55.c4 6f7 56.6d5 6e7 57.c5 6d7 Khalifman Polgar - l,e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.4d2 c5 4.AgB cxd4 5.exd5 58.Qxg7 Ac6 59.6e4 1-0. Game I [D39] Queen's Gambit Sxd5 6.Qc4 Ed6 7.0-0 af6 s.ab3 Ace g.Atxd4

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The Final Hc3+ 57.692 Ac2 O-1. 67...Hxh71 Uxb3 36.f5 ge3+ 37.6h2 Sc5 38.fxg6 Uxd6+ The final match of six games belween 57...6c6 68.6c4 6d6 69.Ha2 &e7 70.6c5 Hc8+ 39.Hxd6 Eb8 40.gxl7+ 6xf7 41.Hd3 b4 42.Hb3 Khalifman Akopian Alexander Khalifman and Vladimir Akopian - 71.6b6 EhS? be6 43.94 &dS 44.h4 6c4 45.Hb1 b3 46.h5 6d5 Game 2 [E38] Nimzoindian took place lrom 22nd to 28th August, there 71...&f6 draws quite comfortably. 47.h6 ld4 af6 2,c4 e6 3.ad Qb4 4.Uc2 c5 5.dxc5 72.Hh2 bd6? 47.693 6e5 48.bh4 bf6 49.85+ bg7 50.bg4 Sc7 6.613 Qxc5 7.g3 Sb6 8.e3 Qe7 9.992 a6 72...bf6 73.hc7 bg6 74.bd6 ar,d the pawn Eb4+ is also drawn. 10.0-0 Hc7 11.b3 d6 t2.Qb2 abdT 13.495 Eb8 ending would be easily won for White; but 47...be6 48.h7 Hh8 49.Hxb3%-%. 14.Hac1 0-0 ls.Efdl b6 l6.Ace4 Axe4 l7.Axe4 72...bd7173.Hd2+ 6e8! 74.Hd6 HxhT 75.Hxe6+ Khalifman Akopian Qb7 t8.Wc3%-%. - He7 76.Hh6 Hd7 is an easy draw. After 72...bd6 Game 6 [A77] Modern Benoni Akopian - Khalifman Black is lost. l.d4 Af6 2.AR e6 3.c4 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 being one rest day between rounds 3 and Game 3 [851]Sicilian 73.Hd2+ he7 74.bc7 6f6 75.Hh2 695 6.4c3 a6 7.a4 96 s.Ad2 AbdT 9.e4 Qg7 t0.Qe2 0-0 11.0-0 He8 l2.Uc2 Hb8 13.Ha3 Ue7 14.h3 4. l.e4 c5 2.Af3 Ac6 3.Qb5 d6 4.0-0 Qd7 5.c3 af6 75...&e7 76.Hhl puts Black in zl:tgzwar,1. h6 15.a5 l6.Ac4 Ae5 17.Axe5 Wxe5 18.f4 6.Hel a6 7.Qa4 c4 8.d4 cxd3 9.Qg5 6e5 76.6d6 6f6 95 ud4+ 19.6h2 b5 20.axb6 Hxb6 21.e5 dxe5 The f,rrst game was a debacle for Akopian who l0.ahdz Qxa4 11.Uxa4+ b5 12.8d4 h6 13.Qxf6 76...ht4 77.bxe6 6xe4 78.Hh4+ 6R 79.6xe5 22.fxg5 hxg5 23.Qxg5 e4 24.4a4 Ed6 25.Eg3 soon had to give up a piece to stay in the game. gxf6 14,a4 Hb8 15.6xe5 dxe5 16.Ua7 Ea8 is also hopeless axd5 26.Qh5 Hfa 27.Ac3 6h8 28.Hxf7 HxtT Whereas Khalifman had lost four garnes along 16...Ub6 l7.Uxb6 Hxb6 18.axb5 axb5 19.Ha8+ 77.bd7 6f7 78.Hh3 6f6 79.Hh1 6f7 80.8h4 6f6 29.Qxfl Qe5 30.Axd5 Hxd5 31.Qxd5 Uxd5 the way, this was the first suffered by Akopian. bd7 2}.Heal Hc6 (20...Qg7 21.Hxh8 Qxh8 81.Hhl 617 82.Hfl+ 697 83.6e7 Ha8 32.Wd2 Uxd2 33.Qxd2 6h7 34.Qc3 Qf4 35.Qe1 Shades of ! The Armenian 22.HzB Qg7 23.Hg8 Ha6 24.R Ha2 25.bf2 +-; 84.Hfl+ 6g6 85.Hxh7 6xh7 [83...Hxh7 e3 36.691 Qxg3 37.Qxg3 a5 38.Qf4 e2 39.bf2 broke back in his next white game, deter- 20...h5 21.H1a7+ be6 22.HeB +-) 21.Hb8 is 86.6xe6 697 B7.6xe5 6fl 88.6d6+-. Qb7 40.6xe2 Qxg2%-%. minedly grinding out a win from a drawn rook clearly better for White. 84.h88+! 1-0. ending but game 4 saw Khalifman once again l7.Ub7 Ec8 18.8d5 Hb8 19.axb5 axb5 Kasparov's references to "tourists" notwith- Khalifman Akopian recover from a loss by winning the next game, 20.Uxd3 hs 2l.An Ud7 22.We2 e6 23.h4 Qc5 - standing, the players who came out on top, Game 4 [E92] King's Indian perhaps the best of the match. The remaining 24.493 6e7 25.Hed1 Uc6 26.Hd3 HbdS Khalifman and Akopian, fully deserved their l.d4 Af6 2.c4 3.4c3 Qg7 4.e4 d6 5.Qe2 0-0 two games were full-on fights too but in the end 27.Hxd8 HxdS 28.Axh5 Hg8 29.8a5 b4 30.9b5 96 success. The new champion. in Hc8 31.693 bxc3 32.bxc3 Sxb5 33.Hxb5 Qa3 6.AR e5 7.Qe3 exd4 8.Axd4 He8 9.f3 c6 10.QO no further blood was spilled. We give all six particular, twice had to come back from behind 34.4e2 Q,c5 35.94 6d6 36.bg2 6c6 37.Hb2 fs d5 11.exd5 cxd5 12.0-0 6c6 13.c5 ah5 14.Ud2 games: in two-game matches early in the competition. 38.R Eh8 39.693 Qe7 40.h5 fxe4 41.fxe4 f5 Qe5 15.93 Ag7 l6.Hfdl Qe617.Axe6 fxe6 18.f4 Certainly if there had been fewer players and Akopian - Khalifman 42.bf3 fxg4+ 43.&xg4 HgS+ 44.6h3 EhS Qf6 19.abs Qe7 20.Hac1 2t.Ad4 Qf6 22.4R ^6 longer matches the results might have been Game 1 [A15] English 45.493 Qgs 46.Hh2 6c5 47.694 Qf4 48.8h3 Ua5 23.Uxa5 AxaS 24.b4 Ac6 25.Hblh6 26.a4 bc4 49.att Hf8 50.4h2 Hg8+ 51.6R Qxh2 27.fxg5 hxg5 28.94 AeS 29.Axe5 Qxe1 different, but the new champion does, after all, t.AB Af6 2.c4 96 3.b4 Qg7 4.Qb2 0-0 5.g3 d6 95 30.Qe3 Hf8 gxf4 hold his title for just twelve months. Perhaps it 6.Qg2 e5 7.d3 ah5 8.6c3 f5 9.0-0 Ac6 10.b5 52.Hxh2 6xc3 53.h6 6d3 54.h7 HI8+ 55.693 3r.Hf1 Qf4 32.Qxf4 33.QfJ Hf7 34.a5 Hd8 35.Hbe1 d4 36.He4 37.Qdl d2 is just a matter of us not taking the whole Ae7 ll.eA c5 l2.bxc6 bxc6 13.c5 d5 14.exd5 Hh8 56.8h4 6e3 d3 38.Hfxf4 Hxf4 39.Hxf4 Ae} 40.&f2 Ac7 41.h4 business of world championships quite as seri- cxd5 15.8b3 e4 l6.dxe4 fxe4 l1"Axe4 Qxb2 e5 42.Hc4 ads 43.6R Hf8+ 44.6e2 HdS 45.6f3 18.Uxb2 dxe4 19.695 Qf5 20.Axe4 Hb8 21.Sc3 ously as we used to in the days of Candidates EI8+ 46.6e2 Hd8 47.Hc2 ad5+ Ads 22.Wa3 Qxe4 23.Qxe4 ahf6 24.QR Uc7 af4+ 48.6d matches utd24-game title matches. 49.be2 af4+ 50.013 51.c6 bxc6 52.Hxc6 25.Hac1 Ael 26.c6 Afs 21.Wc3 Hbc8 28.Hfel 6f/ Hd3+ 53.6e4 6e7 54.h5 Hd4+ 55.&xe5 Hxb4 Ug7 29.Ecdl Hc7 30.He6 h5 31.Ue5 6h7 32.h3 Our sub-zone a ttfiasco" 56.Hc7+ 6fB 57.Hd7 692 58.h6 6gs 59.95 6e3 Ag8 33.Ue4 Af6 34.Ees Ag8 35.Ue4 Ef6 create new sub-zone 60.96 Hb5+ 61.6e4 1-0. FIDE's decision to the 36.Hxf6 Axf6 37.Ub4 He7 38.Ub8 Ade s4t which includes New Zealand has attracted un- hxg4 40.hxg4 Afl 4l.bg2 bg7? Akopian - Khalifman favourable international attention because of Unnecessary. After 41...495 42.Hh1+ bg1 Game 5 [C90] Ruy Lopez the results of the first zonal which was played. petered 43.Uh8+ 6f7 White's attack has out. 1.e4 e5 2.AR Ac6 3.Qb5 a6 4.Qa4 Af6 5.d3 b5 Here's what the British Chess Magazine said'. 42.Hel? 6.Qb3 Qe7 7.0-0 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.He16a5 10.Qc2 "The creation of a 'sub-zone" (comprising Auc- White fails to take advantage of his opponent's cs ll.Abd2 Ac6 t2.Aft He8 13.h3 h6 t4.Ag3 stralia, New Zealand and Fiji) at the 1998 FIDE inaccuracy; he gets good drawing chances by QI8 15.d4 cxd4 16.cxd4 exd4 17.6xd4 Axd4 Congress has backfired disastrously. A weak, 19.Qf4 Hc8 20.Qb3 a5 a4 42.Ebl intending 43.Eb7. 18.uxd4 Qe6 2t.Hadl excessively large zonal tournament in Queens- 57.692 58.613 59.6e2 60.6d3 42...ud8 43.8b2 ag' 44.He3 Bd6 45.Ua3 Sxa3 6d3 6d4 6c5 22.Qxe6 Hxe6 23.Ecl 96 24.Wd3 Hxcl 25.Hxc1 land in April resulted in no less than 15 players Hd8+ 61.6c3 Hh8 62.Eh5 6d6 63.6b4 Eb8+ 46.Exa3 b{t ql.Qez Ae6 48.Ha4 Ad5 49.QR Ud7 26.b3 axb3 27.axb3 Wal zt.Haz Axe4 making FIDE master and intemational titles, 64.6c4 Eh8 6s.Hh1 6c6 66.Hh2 6d6 67.6b4 29.Axe4 Uxe4 30.Qxh6 Qxh6 31.Uxh6 HeS Ae7 50.693 6f6 51.Hc4 6e5 52.Hc1 Ad4 due to the application of FIDE ruIes more appli- 67.bb5 allows the stalemate combination 32.Wd2 9e5 33.Hd1 Hc8 34.f4 Uc3 35.Sxd6 53.He1+ 6f6 54.Qg2 Aexc6 55.f4 Ae7 56.Qtl cable to world class events. Peter Parr, former

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Overseas news The Women's was played in December 7997 at Groningen, along- By NM Peter Stuart side the preliminary stages of the first World Biel 47.Hd2 f4+ 48.bg2 Ed4 0-1. Championship played on the knock-out system. The GM toumament at this year's BieI Chess This event was woll by with Festival was a six-player double round-robin of Piket - Avrukh taking second place. Thus this year's categoty 14 in which Dutch GM Jeroen Piket [D97] Griinfeld title match should have been between Polgar as snuck home with first prize in a close finish. t.d4 if6 2.c4 96 3.Ad d5 4.4f3 Qg7 5.Ub3 champion and Galliamova as challenger. Viktor Bologan was the early leader after win- dxc4 6.Hxc4 O-O 7.e4 a6 8.Qe2 b5 9.Ub3 c5 The Hungarian, however, had recently given ning his flrst two games, but he was unable to 10.dxc5 Qe6 1l.Uc2 Ac612.0-0 Ec7 13.m ab4 birth and sought a six-month postponement, win another. The lead then oscillated between 14.Ubl Sxc5 15.Qe3 Uc8 16.Hct Ub7 t7.ad4 something FIDE apparently could not live with. Piket and the Israeli GM Boris Avrukh with Qc4 18.a3 Ac6 l9.Axc6 Exc6 20.QR Ed6? Unforhrnately the only bid for the new match their mutual encounters proving decisive. Piket 21.8d1 Ue5 22.Qd4 Ue6 23.e5 ad5 24.Ae4 Af4 between Galliamova and Xie Jun came from 1S...4d5! 19.Qxd8 won both games, in rounds 5 and 9, each time 25.0c5 Wf5 26.9xf5 gxf5 27.Qxa8 Ae2+ 28.bhl Axe3 20.Ubt Hbxd8 21.h3 China and Galliamova refused to play the entire wresting the lead from his rival. Top rated HxaS 29.4d7 Qe6 30.Qc5 He8 31.93 Qh6 2l.Kf2 Ng4+ 22.Kgl Ne3 23.Kf2: match in her opponent's home territory so it 32.&92Act Alexander Onischuk started slowly with 1/3 22.Wa2Qxe423.Axc4 Qds 24.b3 Qxd4 25.cxd4 looked as though Xie Jun was going to win the and gradually clawed his way back into con- Axg2 26.Hf2 He6 27.Axa5 Hde8 28.6c4 Hg6 title by default. tention but ran out of rounds. 29.bh2 dxf4 30.Hg1 Hxgl 0-1. In the end a split venue match was arranged Scores: 1 GM Piket (NLD) 7; 2 GM Avrukh with half the match being played in Gal- (ISR) 672; 3 GM Onischuk (UKR) 6; 4 GM Women's world charnpionship liamova's home town and the other half Bologan (MDA) 5; 5 IM Pelletier (SWI) 3%; 6 Just as the Las Vegas event featured some- in Shenyang which appears to be becoming a Bunzmann (GER) 2. times acrimonious argument between FIDE and Chinese version of Elista. defending champion , to say The first half of the best-of-16 game match Avrukh Onischuk - nothing of earlier problems involving Messrs was played in Kazan starting on 30t June. [.486] Dutch and Gary Kasparov, so this Twice did Xie Jun take the lead but both times 7.t14 f5 2.g3 Ate z.QgZ 96 4.c4 Qg7 s.Ac3 0-0 year's Women's title match had its share of Galliamova immediately equalized the scores. 6.Am d6 7.Qg5 c6 8.Sd2 e5 9.d5 c5 10.e4 Ue8 controversy. The home advantage weighed more heavily in 11.exf5 gxf5 12.Qh6 a6 13.Qxg7 6xg7 14.0-0 ZstzsaPoTgu (Hungary) won the title in 1996 the second half and Xie Jun regained her title b5 15.b3 b4 l6.Aa4 BdS 17.495 Ha7 18.Ae6+ by defeating then champion Xie Jun of China. with a game to spare: Qxe6 19.dxe6 f4 20.Hadl Ae8 21.6xc5 Ue7 33.Qxe7! HxeT 34.Af6+ 0g7 35.Hd8 Qd2 22.de4 Wxe6 23.Hfel Ac6 24.gxf4 6h8 25.693 36.Hxd2 Ab3 37.Hd8 Axal 38.Hg8+ 6h6 39.94 Sc8 26.Qxc6 Uxc6 27.fxe5 dxe5 28.Ud5 Uxd5 fxg4 40.hxg4 Qxg4 29.Hxd5 af6 30.Edxe5 a5 31.Hf5 Ha6 32.Ye7 40...Bd5+ 41.Kgl Rxe' 42.f4 Rel+ 43.KO a4 33.Hb7 a3 34.Hxb4 Hd8 35.8e5 Ag4 36.He4 l-. Eg6 37.c5 h5 38.Hb6 Hgg8 39.h3 1-0. 4t.Axg4+ ftnS nZ.6r0+ 6h6 43.f4 Ac2 44.Ag4+ Avrukh - Piket 6h5 45.693 1-0. [D45] Queen's Gambit Bologan Piket 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Aci Af6 4.e3 e6 5.aA abdT - Ruy Lopez Shenyang pursuers. 6.scz Q0r 7.b3 0-0 8.CIb2 b6 9.Qd3 Qb7 10.0- [C65] GMs Alexei Dreev (RUS) and Ye 0 Hc8 ll.Eadl Wc7 12.e4 dxc4 13.Qxc4 e5 l.e4 e5 2.4f3 Ac6 3.Qb5 Af6 4.0-0 Qc5 5.c3 Jiangchuan Unfortunately for the organisers the event par- (CHN) l4.Ae2 c5 15.dxe5 Axe5 16.6xe5 Qxe5 17.Qxe5 0-0 6.d4 Qb6 7.Qg5 h6 8.Qh4 d6 9.a4 a5 shared first place in a category 13 tially coincided with the Las Vegas World Bxe5 18.R HfdS l9.Hd3 96 20.Efdr Hxd3 1O.Eel exd4 11.Qxc6 bxc6 12.Axd4 Ee8 round-robin in July with 619.Michal Krasenkov Championship so there was no question of the 21.Uxd3 bgl 22.Wc3 Uxc3 23.Axc3 Qc6 24.Ab5 13.4d2 c5 t4.Ac2 Qbi 15.f4 c4+ t6.ad4 Eb8 (POL) and Peng Xiaomin (CHN) tied for third participation of Michael Adams, Matthew Qxb5 25.Qxb5 Ec7 26.EdS 95 27.bf2 He7 17.He3 Qa8 18.Sc2 place on 5Yz. Sadler, Nigel Short, Jon Speelman or Tony 2S.0d ahs 29.s3 af6 30.94 h5 31.h4 gxh4 Miles. 32.95 dh7 33.f4 h3 34.Qc4 h2 3s.Hdl t6 36.96 British Championship, Scarborough With Commonwealth players eligible to take 6xg6 37.Hh1 f5 38.Hxh2 af6 39.Hd2 Hxe4+ Julian Hodgson ran away with the Bdtish part, this year's field reached 92 players. In 40.6R Hd4 41.H9+ &h6 42.Qn Aga $.bg3 Championship, a quick draw in the final round sharing second place with GM Peter Wells on 8 h4+ 44.bxh4 Hxfa 45.693 695 46.Ee2 He4 seeing him still a full point ahead ofhis closest points, the Bangladesh IM Ziaur Rahman

NZ Chess NZ Chess 29 28 gained a GM norm as did Scottish number one points gave him clear first place. Belgian GM HxaS 24.h3 Hxa2+ 25.&fl Af6 26.e5 Ads Jonathan Rowson who shared fourth place on Mikhail Gurevich was second on 6% followed 21.bgt b3 28.6h2 b2 2g.Hbdl Ae4 30.h4 h6 1Vz points. by GM Alexander Onischuk (UKR) on 6. Then 31.Hd3 brl 32.&h3? Kozalin followed: 4 GM Milov (SWI) 5; 5 GM Overlooking an unusual double knight fork, Sutovsky - Milov A very strong lO-round Open in this Polish Khenkin (GFF.) 4%; 6-7 GM Kerrrpinski (POL) but White was on the skids anyway, e.g. [B40] Sicilian town featured no fewer that 49 GMs in a field & GM Sutovsky (ISR) 4; 8 GM Rustemov 32..Rbl Ral 33.Rddl Nb6. 1.e4 c5 2.AB e6 3.g3 Ac6 4.Qg2 af6 5.d3 Qe7 Alexander Sha- (RUS) 3%; 9 Bunzmann (GER) ZYz; 10 GM of 74 players. American GM 32...4xf2+10-1. 6.0-0 0-0 7.abdz Eb8 8.a4 d5 9.Ee1 a610.c3 balov won first prize with 8 points. Sharing Markowski eOD2. b5 11.axb5 axb5 12.e5 ad7 B.atl Qb7 14.d4 second were GMs Alexandre Lesidge (CAN) Ha8 15.8b1 b4 16.h4 Hr2 11.Ag5 Qa6 18.Qe3 Yan Wely - Kempinski andZbynek Hracek (CZE) onl. Markowski - Onischuk bxc3 19.bxc3 Ua5 20.Sg4 Qxg5 [E91] King's Indian lE05l Catalan 20...Wxc3? 21.Nxe6. l.d4 Af6 2.c4 96 3.4c3 Qg7 4.e4 0-0 5.AR d6 Amsterdam l.aB d5 2.e3 Af6 3.Qg2 e6 4.c4 Qe7 5.d4 0-0 21.Qxg5 6h8 22.Qxd5 6dxe5 23.dxe5 exd5 6.Qe2 Aa6 7.Qf4 Pe8 8.eS ad7 9.Ud2 dxe5 A small all-GM category 15 tournament in 6.Ad dxc4 7.Ae5 Ac6 8.Qxc6 bxc6 9.Axc6 Se8 24.Qf6! Hg8 10.dxe5 6acs tt.o-o Qg4 12.Se3 Aa4l3.Ae4 August was won by Ivan Sokolov (BIH) with 10.Axe7+ UxeT 11.Ua4 c5 12.Uxc4 cxd4 Kxg8 b6 14.b3 A4c5 15.4c3 ab4 16.Eadl Ae6 24...9xf6 25.exf6 RgS 26.Qxg8+ an undefeated 5l'7. There followed: 2-3 13.uxd4 e5 14.8h4 Hb8 15.0-0 Hb4 16.e4 h6 17.Qg3 c5 r8.h3 Qfs lg.ads acz 20.l9d2 Hds 27.Re8++. P.Nikolic (BIH) & Timman (NED) 472; 4-5 17.Hel Hd8 18.f3 Hff D.bg29b7 2o.He2 21.@h4 Hd7 22.Qd3 Acd4 23.Axd4 Axd4 25.e6 fxe6 26.Uxe6 Wc7 27,4e3 gxf6 28.4f5 (NED) (NED) 6 Piket & Reinderman 372; 24.Hfel Uas zq.Uxc6 Qd3 (YUG) van Avrukh (ISR) 3; 7-8 Ljubojevic & 29...Rf8. der Sterren (NED) 2. 30.Hb8! Ha6 31.Hxd8 31.Rxd8 Rxc6 32.Ree8 and mate in 2. 1-0. Gentofte The final event in the Nordic Visa grand prix London was won by Swedish IM Tiger Hillarp Persson The 93-player open played during the "Mind with 10i13. On 9Yz points were GMs Simen Sports Olympiad" in September saw a three- Agdestein (NOR) and Sune Berg Hansen way first with Alexander Baburin (IRL), (DEN). tie for Lev Psakhis (ISR) and Jon Speelman (ENG) all scoring 7 points from 9 games. Murray Chan- US Open, Reno dler tied for fourth place on 67: points with Following closely on the World Champi- three more Israeli GMs: Murey, Smirin and onship event at nearby Las Vegas, this 488- 20...Q94'! 2l.fxg4 ZiTberman. player Swiss attracted 26 grandmasters. There 21.Rf2 BxR+! 22.RxR Nxe4 and White has 24...Qxh31 25.Af6+ exf6 26.exf6 Ua8? was a six-way tie for first place with 7/z poirtts no defence to knight rnoves with discovered Black adopts a fa:ulty tactical plan. Either US Championship, SaIt Lake City from 9 rounds: GM Goldin (ISR), Mulyar attacks on two lines. 26...8e6 27.fxg7 KxgT or 26...Qc8!? 27.fxg7 Boris Gulko won the final match of the (USA), GM Rozentalis (LIT), GM Schwartz- lead to interesting play. 2l...Axe4 22.Hxe4 Exe4 23.6h3 KxgT knock-out phase of the United States Champi- man (USA), GM Shabalov (USA) and GM 24.Kh3 Rd1 25.Bxh6 Rxal 27.Qe4 Af3+? onship against Grigory Serper. The event Yermolinsky (USA). 23..Nxe4 Qxe4+ 26.Qg5 Qe6-+. ..27...Qc8 28.fxg7 Re8 is still okay for Black. started with two groups of eight players. Gulko 28.QxR Hxd229.Hxd2 headed one group ahead of Alex Yermolinsky Kramnik v Switzerland 23...He1 24.Qxh6 Hxal 25.Ug5 f6 26.Ug6 Hxc3 Much better was 29.fxg7l Rxdl 30.Rxd1 and while Serper won the other ahead of a three- Following in the footsteps of Kasparov, 26..Rxc3 27.bxc3 Rxa2 28.Qe8+ Kh7 29.8d2 all three of Black's remaining pieces are under way tie for second between Yasser Seirawan, Vladirnir Kramnik took on a national team with O-l 96. attack, without reply! Joel Benjamin and Alexander Ivanov. Seirawan an excellent result, a 4-2 victory. Kramnik beat 9...Qh6 3o.Qxa8 Qxd2 31.8e2 Qc3? won the play-off, tied the four game match IM Richard Forster and Richard Gerber while Rustemov - Sutovsky against Gulko at a standard time control, drew drawing with GM Joe Gallagher, IM Yannick Griinfeld ..31...Rxa8 32.Rxd2 Be6 33.g5 h5 is drawn. lD97l the first pair of 25-minute play-off games, but Pelletier, Florian Jenni and Denis Bucher. 32.Qds Qg4? t.d4 Af6 2.c4 96 3.6c3 d5 4.4fi Qg7 s.Ub3 lost the 15-minute games Vz-lYz. In the other 32...8e6 33.Bxe6 fxe6 34.Rxe6 h6 35.f4 Bdz dxc4 6.Uxc4 0-0 7.Qf4 Aa6 8.e4 c5 9.dxc5 Qe6 semi-final between Serper and Yermolinsky all Polanica-Zdroj is obviously better for White, but it is much 10.8b5 Qd7 11.Uxb7 Axc5 12.Ub4 6e6 13.Qe5 four games at the nomal time control were The category 15 Rubinstein Memorial pro- preferable to what follows in the text. a5 14.Ha3 Ub6 15.Qc4 694 16.Qg3 Uba drawn with Serper winning both 25-minute vided Dutch GM Loek van Wely with one of Qc3+ 33.R Qf5 34.Qgs Qd4+ 3s.6h2 h5 36.8e7 a5 17.Uxb4 axb4 18.4d5 Qxb2 l9.Hb1 games. his best career results when his undefeated 7 20.&e2 AcS 2l.ab6 Qe6 22.Qxe6 fxe6 23.6xa8 37.Qh6 Qxf6 3S.QxI8 1-0.

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Sec, Roger Smith (04)528- Sicilian [D43] Queen's lB87l Contact, Roy Keeling (03)308-6936. 2721. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.AB af6 4.Ac3 e6 5.Qg5 h6 1.e4 c5 2.N3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 5.4c3 Auckland Chess Centre Meets Monday 7.30 Waitemata Thursday 7.30pm, Kelston Comm 6.Qh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Qg3 b5 9.Qe2 abd7 a6 [email protected] e6 7.Qb3 b5 8.0-0 b4 9.4a4 Qd7 (social) St, Rd and Awaroa Rd, 10.d5 b4 11.dxe6 bxc3 12.exd7+ UxdT 13.Uc2 & Thursday 7.30pm, 17 Cromwell Centre, cnr Great North 10.c3 Axe4 rl.UR d5 12.c4 Ac6 Mt Eden, Auckland 1003. Tel (09)630-2042 Kelston; jun 6-7.30pm Thursdays, schooldays. 94 14.Hd1 tsb7 15.4e5 Sxb2 r6.Ua4 Ub5? clubroom; contacts club captain Paul MacDon- Contact Bruce Pollard (09)818-2342. ald (09)534-7930; secretary Tony Kesseler Wanganui Mondays 7pm, lst floor, Commer- (09)412-8184. cial Club, St HilI St. Pres, Gordon Hoskyn, 7 Canterbury, PO Box 25-242, Christchurch. Pehi St (06)3a3-6101; sec, K Yorston, 5 Meets Wednesday, 7.30pm., 227 Bealey Av- Mitchell St (06)343-7 166. enue; tel (03)366-3935 clubroom. Pres, Gavin Wellington Friday 7pm, Lighthouse Centre, Dawes (03)352-4851. 235 Karori Road, Karori. Contact, L Ross Jack- Civic Tuesday 7.30pm, Museum Room, Tum- son (04)563-8013. bull House, Bowen Street, Wellington 1. Pres, John Gillespie (04)476-3729; Sec, Brent South- Associate members eate (04)475-7604. Gisborne, 4126 Harris St, Gisborne. Gambit Sec, Ted Frost, 103 Koromiko Road, M.P.Grieve (06)863-0101. Gonville, Wanganui. Tel (06)347-6098. New Plymouth 11 Gilbert St, New Plymouth. 13.Axe6! Qxe6 14.cxd5 Ad4 17.8d8+! Ilamilton: Wed, 7.30pm, St Pauls Collegiate Tuesdays, 7.30pm. Pres, R P Bowler, 17a Hori ..14...8xd5 l5.Bxd5 Qxd5 16.M6 is hopeless 17...Kxd8 18.Nxc6+ Kd7 Qxb5 +-. 1-0. School. Inquiries Gary Judkins (07)855-5392. St (06)753-6282. Contact, Bob Bowler. for Black. Ilastings-lfavelock North P.O. Box 184, Hast- NZ Correspondence Chess Assn, P.O. Box 15.Uxe4 Axb3 l6.dxe6l Axal 17.Uc6+ 6e7 Berlin ings. Wed, 7.30 pm, Library, Havelock N High 3278, Wellington. Sec, J W (Sandy) Maxwell, 18.8b7+ German GM Robert Htibner played an eight- School, Te Mata Rd. Sec, Chris Smith (06)877- (04)237-47s3. 19.Qxf7+ Ke5 20.Bf:1+ with a mating 18...Kf6 game blindfold simul against the second divi- 4583. Petone Gambit Thursday 7.30pm Central attack. 1-0. sion SC Kreuzberg team in late September. Howick-Pakuranga Tuesday 7 .45pm (uniors Bowling Club, Roxburgh St, Petone. Pres, Yermolinsky - Christiansen Htibner made the brilliant score of 6y2-1V2, 6.30-7.30), St John Ambulance Hall, Howick- Mark Noble, 97 Seddon St, Naenae, Lower just draws to the team which Pakuranga Highway, Highland Park. Sec, Kees [D36] Queen's Gambit conceding three fiitt (04)567-0467. had an average Elo rating of 2296. This result van den Bosch Thursday 7pm, Whangarei l.d4 af6 2.Af3 e6 3.c4 d5 4.ad abdT 5.cxd5 Whangarei gives a performance rating of about 2550! (09)s21-s828. Geoffrey exd5 6.Qg5 c6 7.e3 Qe7 8.9c2 0-0 9.Qd3 He8 YWCA, Rust St.. Contact, Invercargill Wednesday 8pm, staff room, 10.0-0 af8 11.h3 Qe6 12.Hfe1 Hc8 13.a3 ag6 Gill (09)438-3035. School, Ness St. Sec, Robert Mackway 14.b4 a5 l5.Aa4 Ae4 16.Qxe7 HxeT 17.4c5 f5 South (03)217-1154. 18.bxa5 Hxa5 19.Heb1 Ha7 20.a4 Hf8 21.a5 Chandler resumes active play Jones, 5 Pine Cres, Invercargill District Associations 7.30pm, Salvation Army Qc8 22.8b6 h6 23.8b3 &h7 24.fi dxcs New Zealand-born GM Murray Chandler Kapiti Wednesday, Auckland Chess Assn, Sec, Kees van den Hall, Bluegum Rd. Paraparaumu Beach. Sec, 25.dxc5 Hf6 26.Ad4 Ae5 27.Qxf5+! Qxf5 has rearranged his business affairs in order Bosch, 61,{ St Johns Road,Auckland 1005 Rosemary Kingston, 51 Ames St, Paekakariki 28.Axf5 Exfs 29.Ub1 to resume active play, and also to devote (09)521 -5828. (04)292-81s7. 29...96 3O.axb7 31.Ra8r-. 1-0. more time to Gambit Publications, which he Wellington District Chess Assn Inc, QbS Shore P.O. Box 33-587, Takapuna, co{ounded. He is managing director of this North Auckland 9. Wednesday 7.30pm, Northcote Fiirth venture. Community Centre, cnr College Rd/Ernie Mays The Pyramiden-Franken Cup open touma- Murray was owner and editor of the British St. Club capt, Peter Stuart (09)445-6377. ment was won by English GM Stuart Conquest Chess Magazine, but has given up the Otago 7 Maitland St, Dunedin. Wednesday and with 7W9. Sharing second on 7 points were editorship and sold his shares. However, Saturday, 7.30pm. Tel (03)477-6919 clubroom. GMs Agrest (SWE), Bischoff (GER), Kinder- Murray is continuing to contribute to the

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